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Re: y2K woes & omega



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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 UMCANE01@xxxxxxx wrote:

> may not be backwords compatible. When Microsoft developed Win95 I don't think
> they were probably thinking DOS, do you? No, they were probably thinking

DOS 7.0?

> 32-Bit applications, which, from what I've seen, are usually Y2K Compliant?

How did you manage that handwaving leap of faith?

> No? If you have a problem running a DOS based program in Win95 in my opinion,
> I would blame the application but tell the client/user they should try to
> upgrade to 32-Bit. Wouldn't you agree?

Some things you just have to archive forever. This gem is going into a 
time capsule. Perhaps when Y10K rolls around everyone will discover they 
need to upgrade their DOS10000 systems to 64 bit :-) 

Cheers,

Jim