Nuke Redmond!

[John Many Jars]

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 at 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
>
>
>

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