On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, at 09:16 PM, Ted Roche wrote:

> For Microsoft, I suspect they could not find a situation among their

> very large clients where killing the 16-bit environment introduced too

> great a hardship. For us little guys that might have a Delphi or a

> Paradox or a DOS BASIC app we depended on, well, we were on our own.

> Workarounds can be found, and our pain is not MS'

Exactly this. It is not the same as IBM mainframes having backward

compatibility, because IBM get a stack of money from the banks and

airlines that run the legacy systems to keep that going. Microsoft get

zip on an ongoing basis from some guy still wanting to run WordPerfect

5.1 or some ancient MS-DOS video store rental manager application, and

the number of corporates with this requirement is either now tiny or can

be handled with virtualisation.

Are there many Linux or Apple applications of the same age that still

run on those platforms? No. It is a simple cost\benefit situation for

Microsoft, and as has been pointed out, 32-bit Windows 10 will almost

certainly still run all this stuff anyway.

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Alan Bourke

alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

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