Have they given up?

[Steve Wendt]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:48:17 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>> Can you run 10 year old windows program on NT - maybe, but
>> probably not!
>
>    Don't be so sure about that.  I've run lots of fun software on my various
>NT installations.  ;P
>    I've also run across old OS/2 software that didn't work on recent
>installations of OS/2.

OS/2 will run the majority of DOS and OS/2 apps in existence.  It will also run the 
majority of Windows apps >5 years old.  You can't say that about Windows 2000, 
even ignoring OS/2 apps.

>    Gimme a recompile on Linux any day.

No argument there... :)


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