Subj : Re: WINDOWS XP To : Jay Emrie From : David R. Norton Date : Fri Jul 20 2001 03:36 am wrote in message news:995649025.86.0@fastq.com... > DRN> wrote in message news:995433288.86.0@fastq.com... > DRN>> I do not understand. Why? Just do not "upgrade???" to XP. > > DRN>Because sooner or later Win2k will cease to function as new hardware and > DRN>new software become available. > I suppose you are correct. However, I will hang on to > 98SE/2000 (whichever I end up using) as long as possible. > Considering Win.x arrived about the mid 80s, that gives a > usable? life span of about 15 years. MAYBE 2000 will have a > similar life span and by then I probably wont care - I'll be > in my 90s IF I live that long. :-( Probably so, but Windows 95 came out in the second half of 1995, unless you've upgraded it won't support USB nor will Microsoft support Windows 95 anymore so......... that figures more like 6 years???? Or how about Win3.11 which was the latest available product until second half of 1995? It's pretty unusable now with newer software/hardware and again, it's only 6 years old. And I hope both of us live long enough to see Windows 2000 become as hopelessly obsolete as TRSDOS is today! FWIW, TRSDOS is only 18-19 years old...... --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Bob's Place BBS Mesa,AZ (www.bobsplc.com) (480)610-5160 (1:114/59) .