Isaacblake ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > Try the fact that Quicken-4 for Windows :-( has problems with Windows '95, > as well as a list of 100+ programs which were identified in PC Week a few > weeks ago... Strange. I been running Quicken-4 (CD-ROM edition) for Windows every darn day under Win95 for at least two months and haven't had a problem yet (knock on wood, of course ;-). I think the "problem" you're referring to was some corner-case with printing. > My take on Windows '95 is that it's a good product, however if the > migration from MPE/V to MPE/XL was this bad, then MPE would be truly > dead!!! Oh, come on now. I seem to recall going through about two weeks of coursework for the MPE V to MPE/XL migration. Several months of in-depth planning. Four days of downtime for the actual migration. Not to mention around nine thousand dollars of HP consulting time. The hardware, being proprietary, was of course a known quantity too. The so-called "migration" to Win95 (of which I've personally done two) consisted of perusing an installation manual, verifying some hardware settings, running the setup program and feeding in some disks. I don't see a comparison here. > Look at the costs for upgrading the associated software, along with the > hardware issues. In some cases it makes sense to sell your old > system/software, and take that money towards the purchase of a new Pentium > system with bundled software. Other than (on minimal systems) moving from 4 to 8mb of RAM and possibly a larger hard drive, I don't see any reason to sell those 386 and 486 systems and move to a Pentium unless you just want to justify getting a faster machine in the process. I see the major cost for a business will be training people in the use of Win95. Moving to 32-bit application software can be incremental and the cost should be comparible to moving to newer versions of software which most places do eventually anyway. Jeff Lindberg, Information Technology Coordinator --- Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency ([log in to unmask]) 729 21st Street Bettendorf, IA 52722 | "Any technology, sufficiently || "Any technology, sufficiently | | advanced, is indistinguishable || advanced, is indistinguishable | | from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke || from a household appliance." -- me |