Board:   [DoveNet] Programming
Subject: Re: Cobol/gnucobol
From:    Jcurtis
Date:    Thu May 29, 2025 09:45

> Windows back in the late 90s was far, far more unstable

I have a stable Windows 3.11 setup. You need enough memory to eliminate
the paging file. There was a bug that persisted until Windows 98.

> Now they do everything on the phone

Phone touch screens don't suit my fingers. I like a computer keyboard.

> A lot of software is crappy though, at least by *my* expectations.

It all went wrong around the time programmers thought they could
develop anything. That job belongs to senior systems analysts.


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