Heh. I'm a Microsoft Admin (in addition to doing all the other IT stuff around here)... and I hate Microsoft too, but somehow I don't want to convert the entire company to Linux (the most important system here, the manufacturing system, runs on Linux).
I think that would make my life, not worth living. On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 08:13, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Unfortunately, I have to use Windoze as most medical software is M$ > centric. Also, started using VB in about 1991 which allowed me to > create windows easily rather than using Hypercard on Mac. As with > most M$ programs, they decided to replace a perfectly functional VB6 > which allowed one to incoporate assembly code (Hardcore VB was an > excellent resource for getting as close as one could to hardware in > windoze) with VB.NET which is a POS. > > Stuck with a huge codebase of VB6 programs that I use daily and still > haven't yet succeeded in getting VB6 programs to run under Wine on my > Linux machines. Wine, however does run all of my old 16 and 32 bit > programs. Have XP running in VirtualBox and run my old Mac code in > BasiliskII. Soon as get VB6 running under Linux, will say goodbye to M$ > crap. > > There's a huge number of old machines out there and have systems > ranging from original XP's to 80486 based laptops which are very nice > as dedicated machines for data acquisition. In typical M$ fashion, > they came out with PenWindoze in 1991 or so, when got my first tablet > PC, and then totally changed digital ink format when they came out > with their *new and improved* version in 2000 tablet PC's. Have a > number of these old machines and M$ was actually helpfull in > providing details of their new ink format and wrote some neat drawing > programs where one can time every stroke and alter the drawing. Of > course, when I asked for the initial ink format it appears that they > "lost" it, likely because it was "too old". Have lots of drawings > that I did in early 1990's that I can see as long as the laptops they > were done on continue to function, but porting it to "new and > improved" ink format is something I don't have time for. > > Planned obsolesence seems to be standard M$ policy as well as the > assumption that no person in their right mind would use hardware > that's very ancient, like 10 years old. > > >On 10/07/2019 12:26 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > >> > >>I hear you--I've been on Linux for day-to-day stuff for quite a few > >>years, but keep a copy of XP on VirtualBox just in case. > >> > >>Some of the older systems that I have legacy peripherals in also require > >>Windows, but it's all old versions. > >> > >>I recently convinced my lovely wife to make the leap to Linux. She > >>really likes it. > >I've been using Linux since 1998 when I started using the EMC > >program for CNC machines, which ran on a real time version of > >Linux. I quickly saw I could do most normal things better on Linux. > >I now use Win XP and Win 7 for just a FEW programs which are not > >available on Linux. One is an old but VERY good electronic CAD > >package (Protel 99 SE, the 99 kind of gives away the vintage!) > >and my yearly tax filing program, which now required Win 7. > >I run these as needed in a virtual machine. First I used VMware, > >but later moved to Virtual Box. > > > >My family used Linux when here, but they have all moved out now, one > >daughter has a Dell laptop that I set up with Linux, and my wife > >uses Linux and they both find it works quite well for them. > > > >Jon > > > -- Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems: "The Future Begins Tomorrow" Visit us at: http://www.yoyodyne-propulsion.net -------- "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." -- Jonathan Swift
