Have they given up?

[Larry Ebbitt]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:36:09 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>IBM strive to allow their
>customers to preserve the value of their legacies;
>MS strive to make you throw away the thing of value, and
>send them cash for a new version!

Ain't it the truth.  I have some fairly complex code I wrote
for OS/360 in 1967.  I still use it, unchanged, on OS/390
2.6.  There have surely been a bunch of new releases in
between. 




Larry  -  Atlanta / OS/2

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