Timeline for When are legacy/unsupported systems still on-topic?
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| May 2, 2013 at 11:27 | comment | added | Jenny D | I don't quite agree - there are times when choosing a different system would solve a lot of problems, regardless of how old the system is. But it can and should be done with reasonable courtesy. | |
| May 2, 2013 at 11:14 | comment | added | Flup | Sounds good to me. I do think that, being a forum for professionals, questioning someone's choice (or lack of choice) of platform is missing the point. If a question is asked here and it's framed in a professional manner, I think we need to assume that the questioner has a good reason for being where he is and go from there. | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 5:53 | comment | added | tylerl | @Bryan - I think my old HP-48 had an emulator for those systems. You could run a whole farm of them off a single calculator, but you have to put in delay loops to slow the emulator down to keep the timing in sync. | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 13:34 | comment | added | Jenny D | Diapers? You mean Depends? | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 11:56 | comment | added | user11604 | @Kevin Windows 3.11 is barely out of nappies/diapers. We manage some of these which are still used in production for a customer of ours and they are still going strong. They are still in use for the the reason explained in your third bullet point. | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 2:54 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @Kevin we have some questions of that vintage... | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 1:11 | vote | accept | Deep Thought | ||
| Apr 20, 2013 at 1:11 | comment | added | Deep Thought | Wow... Windows 3.11.. wasn't even thinking of anything quite that old! :) | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 21:19 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | +1 - The questions are fine. The answers however may be nonexistent (because the technology is so ancient nobody remembers it), or not what the asker wants to hear ("You can't do IPv6 with Windows 3.1"). As long as someone asking about legacy systems isn't going to pitch a fit if their question falls into one of those two categories they're more than welcome to ask it here. | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 10:33 | history | answered | Jenny D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |