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Originally Posted by dickloraine
Software is not "immortal" in a practical sense. It needs hardware to run and an environment that can handle it. In your case you for example need a virtual xp environment. Of course it is possible to provide these environments, but someone has to program these too. And if you look to apps like browsers, if standards are changing, you could not use them for their purpose anymore. Not to speak about security issues.
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<Shrug> people still hunt with bows and arrows - by choice.
I'm still running Atari 800 software, via emulator, by choice.
What's this "practical sense"? There was nothing to prevent Microsoft from offering the existing 16 bit emulator on Windows 7 on an as-is basis,as a separate emulator. After all, Microsoft offered Virtual PC 2004 for $100 (which I bought) under XP, which would run any of their software (not hardware dependent) all the way back to DOS 1.0. Do you think that everybody is going to stop making x86 chipsets? (and all the existing ones are going to evaporate?)
Ripley's Believe It Or Not, there are other uses for computers and software than the internet. 60-80% of my use is on my "sterile" machine, not the one with an internet connection...