Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >I know people (including my humble person) using Win 9x far after it was out >of support. Some of them used the PC to connect to mainframe. So? I just >dropped my 3174's - they had no support contract for 10+ years. I have/had >some equipment or software which doesn't work with newer systems. For example, >PCOMM 5.8.x installation is blocked by Win7 (wih some service, AFAIK vanilla >Win7 does not block it).
It reminds me of those years where I was asked to write a Turbo Pascal program to interact with OS/390 so datasets could be XMITted to stiffies for my users. All the while when Win98 and FTP were available. >Last but not least: there are closed system, like laptop inside HDS dasd box >or PC inside EMC dasd box. Sometimes they are really ancient, but completely >unconnected to rest of the world with little chance to have new (to new to be >supported) hardware. And this is also not related to the mainframe itself ;-) Same with out of support OS/2 used in one of our robots handling 3490 cartridges. >I have no objection for discussion about weather report for next Share >(although I've never been on any), or even offshore economy.. ;-) It's just >off-topic. I just read them for fun. >I just wanted to point out two things: 1. Win XP EOS is not related to mainframes. 2. The EOS date is not death date. After the EOS date all the WinXP won't stop working or get hacked, or start claiming 2+2=5. Agreed. If 2+2 is 5, then we will get welcome rain. ;-D >Last, but not least, good advice to Win8 haters: Try to use Classic Shell >freeware. I did it on my Win7 and it looks like Windows 98 ;-))) Hmm, today I learned something new. Thanks! I still have a Pentium 450 with Win98 to play ancient DOS games. Space Quest I, II, etc. are waiting for me. ;-) >I spent a loooot of time on Win7 customization and now I see no big difference >between Win7 and WinXP (I use both on different machines) Regedit (win7+winxp) is my friend and enemy. Friend, because of my absolute insane hacking. Enemy, because I had to do format+clean install because of insane hacking. ;-D >BTW: I sill use IBM Bookreader (this 16-bit, for Win 3.1) on my Win7 32-bit. I'm using IBM SoftCopy Librarian v4.4 on WinXp 32 bit. Seemed you and me are practising evil ancient art of computing. ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ( Climate Change? Nah, make it Climate Confusion! ;-D ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
