Re: How workable is Vista?

Jonathan Kirwan wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:39:53 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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That's why I love DOS. Pretty much all of the DOS routines from the late 80's I still need run flawlessly on NT4, Win2k and XP. I've heard they won't on Vista but that wouldn't matter because that's off limits in this office anyhow. Ok, there is the occasional Borland compiler bug (runtime error) but that is quite easily fixed.

Some of this software does not exist in any flavor other than DOS so it's got to run. I am not a SW guy so I wouldn't be able to write myself a Windows version. Now 20 years ain't bad for software, I think.

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But Microsoft Vista policies now will probably finally force me into
much greater use of Linux and FreeBSD. As much as I'm able, I will
not use Vista, and I will spend all necessary learning time to move
further away from anything to do with Microsoft operating system
environments. It's one thing to move forward... but it is another
entirely to force an entire population to purchase hardware and
software that operates together to fully protect the DRM rights of a
few large corporate interests and, in the process, move even further
away from my business needs than they already had.

At some point the final straw is added.

Jon

There are various virtualisation solutions that might make your life easier. <http://www.dosbox.com/> is a DOS emulator that gives a much more complete DOS environment than a command prompt in windows. You could also try Virtual Box, which is a good virtualisation environment. If that doesn't work, qemu is a more complete (and slower) x86 emulator.
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