Definition of Obsolete... (was: Re: gauging interest in VAX 6000-530

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_mail.athenet.net>
Date: Tue Oct 26 20:07:47 1999

The concept of "legacy" is a one of the worst cases of MICROSO~1 marketing
induced management speak out there: the only kind of system which
"legacy" does not seem to cover is anything running NT.

Recently I have seen a laughable example of a DOS-based telephone call
processing system glossed up with a GUI on a windows front end which was
just as out dated and difficult to use as the DOS version since it was
obviously backed by the same code. Various "windows" even had the same
words misspelled as their DOS counterparts and took the same obtuse search
syntax. However, this was not "legacy" in the minds of mgt since it ran on
NT.

Paul
(catalyst for the recent VAX hysteria)


On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com wrote:

> are called "legacy systems". It's generally acknowledged that if a
> system does its job well and reliably, it is "legacy"; the mark of a
> non-legacy system is that it is under constant development, crashes often,
> and doesn't fill its design specs.
Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 20:07:47 BST