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While you are asking them questions, ask how much of their current 32-bit
binaries will continue to run on a 64-bit Windows 2000 Server or
Professional, in any mode. Suggest they use the 16-bit code that they are
currently running on NT as a baseline.

It's great if they have the foresight to plan upgrades to the platforms (NT
and 3000) as they may, in theory, be required: more disc, more memory, CPU
upgrades and better tape drives (which could be replacements), but I doubt
that that is what they mean by the life expectancy of the machine. There's a
saying that one does not wear out a Volvo, one grows tired of it and trades
it in for another model...

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 5:51 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Life Expectancy

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Return to this question in 25 years and ask your NT friends if they can say
the same in the year 2025 for their NT boxes. I'm sure that I'll be able to
say the same for the HP3000 then -- with the obvious exception that the code
we first wrote in 1976 will be 50 years old by then.

Wirt Atmar