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Originally Posted by KevinH
Have you considered trying to run Windows 7 on that box? Or alternatively run Linux on it?
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The hardware could handle it. It's my workflow that is the issue. I'm dependent on a number of old softwares for my work, many of which have long ago stopped updating. They all work under XP quite well, but I'm dubious of running them on later versions. Whe I use Win 7 all I see is hassles with permissions and such and more and more bloat.
I know there are workarounds, like DOSBox, but I just can't face the inevitable hassles of changing platform. I've done it several times; from Unix to DOS to Win3, Mac System 6, 7, 9, Windows 2k, XP.... each time was hard.
Ironically, it's the free software, not the commercial, that is the problem. The many that require Qt have left me behind. Most I don't care as old versions work well enough. But Sigil (and Calibre) are ones I would like to keep current if I could.
I'd need to get another PC to test stuff rather than experiment with my work machine. Downtime more than a few days could be a big problem. Or maybe just swap in a new hard disk.