On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Nikhil Joshi wrote: > > Unix is still used because of two reasons. > > 1. Legacy apps that haven't been ported > > What are legacy apps? Can you elaborate please.
`legacy apps' is the polite way of saying those apps that were written for archaic systems and don't work on new ones. MS guys used to use it to refer to unix apps - we'll port your legacy unix apps to NT. nowadays, some of the smarter linux advocates have turned the tables - using wine, we can run your legacy windows apps on linux. no porting is required. -- Well, Jim, I'm not much of an actor either. _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
