On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 23:27:51 -0400, "Ralph Mowery"
wrote:


"Fat-Dumb and Happy" wrote in message
...

So they say, Winxp will be supported until April 8, 2014
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ucts/lifecycle
Maybe they'll extend it again.. and again...

They may. There are still a lot of comercial places using XP. No need for
them to upgrade and seems that the newer systems are not really for
business, but social networking.

To top it all off, there is a lot of equipment still out that need DOS and a
slow computer to run it on. Anything past windows 98 will not work and if
the computer is very fast, even that will not work.

You should have seen our IT department looking around for an old 3 inch
floppy that was a special kind that I think was used mainly in some IBM
machnes years ago. That drive was part of a $ 40,000 machine and needed to
load some programs on.

Ayup. OmniTurn CNC lathes...$42k new for the hip slick and kewl
verson...still runs under DOS. Caldera Open Dos in fact.


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