Like Rick we started long ago, CPM in fact then to D3.3 the last version with IBM and M$ together. By dos 6.2 we were running our own Dos Int 21 Intercept and thereafter Ricks list almost exactly, except we did not skip ME unfortunately. Now have Ubuntu and W2000's and an XP laptop.
But Ireland has Family Agribusiness which moves slowly . Have customers still running Dos and DOS DVM under OS/2 with Netware Servers. They simply never fail at the OS level. Just Disk drives and P/S wearing out problems. Not much joy in switching on a large full loaded grinder just because the OS takes a hike. The motors develop such startup torque there is a danger of pulling the frame out of the ground! Now Moving to VFP5.0 under some VM or other under UBUNTU maybe. Any advise welcome. William Tormey AML On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 11:17 -0400, Pete Theisen wrote: > MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > > MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > >> Rick Schummer wrote: > >>> Windows 7 *is* a polished Vista and from a technical perspective it could > >>> be > >>> considered another Vista SP. It does crack me up how so many people are > >>> finding features they love in Windows 7, and those features are in Vista > >>> as > >>> well. If they had only taken the time to check out Vista instead of just > >>> parroting the words of the few who actually did. *sigh* > >> > >> This tech actually LIKED Vista and wasn't saying that as a slam, but > >> more from the POV of a pro-MS person who got pissed about the many who > >> shunned Vista without even trying it. Like you. > >> > > > > 'Like you' of course meant not being the one who shunned it without > > trying it but the one who "sighed" about others who did. No offense in > > the initial comment. > > Hi Rick, Michael, > > It seems to me that this discussion comes up again and again. I remember > something on this list about "The Tao of Software" which for some reason > isn't coming up on an archive search. It was pretty much the same > discussion about the early versions of XP, imaginatively done. > > I have avoided most of the trouble by being a late adopter. Started Dos > with Version 3.33 or so, Windows with 3.1, Win 95 in 97, Win 98 in 2000, > skipped ME entirely and didn't get XP until 2003 or so. Switched to > Linux at that. > > Linux sometimes has some issues with early versions, but they usually > get fixed overnight with so many people working on them. But I delay > getting new flavors in Linux as well. Old habits die hard. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1283187409.6886.17.ca...@client-desktop ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
