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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: (Yes my) SW Make it to the year 2000?
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Date: 29 Jun 89 16:03:24 GMT
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Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <382@amms4.UUCP>, hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross) says:
> 
> Excuse me - a correction to my correction.

This has degenerated into a discussion of whether 2000 is a leap year or not,
but the real question of 'will your package survive' was addressed rather
lightly.
I think some software will easily survive another 10 years.
Ha! You say.  Where is CP/M now?
I only know that I was rather surprised to find a former customer of mine
calling for conversion assistance on a program that he has been using,
unmodified, since 1979.  That is ten years ago now.  It has survived through
several OS upgrades, and even moving to a network, without so much as a
recompilation.
The only problem that it has currently is that it was written for a 12 line
screen, and has looked funny on the 24 line screens in use for the past
several years.

Particularly if you have distributed source (which I did not), some pieces
of your code will likely exist well into the future.

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