RE: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:40 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

Ron Adams wrote:
> I know of very few programs written for the PC 15 years ago that are
> still running and usable today, in fact I can't think of any.

I'm still using a roughly 18-year-old release of my favorite typesetting 
program, Xerox Ventura Publisher, DOS/GEM Edition, and a roughly 
15-year-old release of WordPerfect, on my own personal hardware. There 
are some nasty impedance bumps (requiring touch-up in Acrobat) with 
certain special-purpose fonts, when I generate PDFs from 
Ventura-generated PostScript print files, and I once ended up sending a 
supposedly-genuine-Adobe-PostScript color laser printer back to the 
vendor the day after it arrived, because it refused to print from 
Ventura, but there's nothing I can't deal with.

Then again, I don't allow WinDoze to be installed on my own personal 
hardware: my boxes run DOS, or they run Linux, or they run MacOS.