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<hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 10:08:33 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
> 
>>> Microsoft and the hardware makers followed the auto industry
>>> model of planned obsolescence.  My old PC physically works 
>>> reasonably well, but the software is obsolete and difficult
>>> to use for many tasks since it is no longer compatible.
>>> 
>>> Note that IBM provided old system compatibility going back 40 years.
>>> Would it kill the PC industry to provide that?  
>> 
>> The PC industry actually DOES provide old system compatibility going
>> back 40 years.  Getting back to the 16-bit DOS era and beyond requires
>> using an emulator, which is no hardship given that you're running
>> about a thousand times the clock speed with multiple cores..  But that
>> given, I can boot up a CP/M session on my gaming rig and run 8-bit
>> Wordstar just fine (once I've hexedited the configuration file to
>> match the terminal that the emulator pretends to have).
> 
> FWIW, on a personal note, I looked into running an emulator
> so I could run old DOS/Windows applications.  However, 
> installing it seemed difficult (it's possible I needed to
> simply devote more time to it.)  However, I have little desire
> to "hexedit the configuration file" to make it all work.
> 
> 
>> 
>>> As mentioned, they upgrade and upgrade but really don't improve
>>> anything.
>> 
>> My newest machine can read my handwriting at least as well as the last
>> secretary I had and sometimes does what I tell it to do verbally.  It
>> also recognzes me when I boot it up.
>> 
>> However you talk about your "old PC physically works reasonably well
>> but the software is obsolete and difficult to use for many tasks since
>> it is no longer compatible".  With what is it not compatible that is
>> causing you problems?
> 
> My MS-Word and Internet Explorer have a difficult time today.
> 
> For instance, I send Word documents to friends.  They could only
> open it as Read-Only due to the old version.  They could not get
> around that restriction without going to a lot of trouble.  
> 
> As someone mentioned, I now use plain text files.  But things
> like italics and boldface get lost.  It's impossible to send
> a more formal document with headings and pagination.
> 
> As to the Internet, more and more websites no longer operate
> on my browser.
> 

Why not use OO or LO? What are the compatibility issues with recent
versions of "word"?

-- 
Pete