Re: Excel-RS232 via Cheapcomm: Where?

Joerg wrote:
40MB to get to the ports, wow ...

Getting to the ports might be all *you* wanted, but the runtime provides
an entire JIT compiler-interpreter and its runtime library, i.e. it's an
entire platform, and actually quite small for what it is.

Your are probably right. However, that's a "version control" scheme that is totally foreign to me.

So you'd expect that old DOS program to still work under Vista, would you?
Myself, I'd rather that the platform moves on occasionally, and that means
breaking compatibility with programs that depend on bugs and design flaws
in the old version. At least with .NET you have the option of running old
programs on the old runtime, and new ones with the new one. It's not as
though they've released hundreds of versions, after all - there are only
two in play currently and a third coming.

Clifford Heath.
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