Poor support for CodeWarrior

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Britannicus - 29 Apr 2005 22:55 GMT

>You just *recently* found out Symantec is no longer supporting Think C
>5.0? I can't even remember how many years it's been since Symantec
>dropped Think C as a product.
>
> Larry

Yep. I just *recently* found out that my superdrives won't read from
the 800K diskettes. It happened when I decided that I really should
recompile NCSA telnet from the sources and go over how it handles 5-bit
telnet, etc. Then I find that Symantec (while banking on the goodwill
of the Symantec brand) doesn't provide replacement disks which is very
good news for my project.

--
"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another--
It's one damn thing over and over. --Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Sean McBride - 30 Apr 2005 01:58 GMT

> Yep. I just *recently* found out that my superdrives won't read from
> the 800K diskettes. It happened when I decided that I really should
> recompile NCSA telnet from the sources and go over how it handles 5-bit
> telnet, etc. Then I find that Symantec (while banking on the goodwill
> of the Symantec brand) doesn't provide replacement disks which is very
> good news for my project.

rotfl. See:

<http://www.grenier-du-mac.net/fiches/applications/thinkC.html>
<http://grenierdumac.free.fr/telechargement/ThinkC.sit>

I doubt Symantec will mind. :)

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larry@skytag.com - 30 Apr 2005 03:17 GMT

ROFL Thank you. Really, that's the funniest thing I've heard in a
while. So, how many companies out there do you think are providing
replacement disks for software that came on 800K floppies and was
discontinued 10 years ago?

Seriously, though, I think you're out of touch with how the desktop
computer software industry works. I don't know anyone who would do this
for a product discontinued a decade ago. The sooner you can stop
supporting old versions the better it is for your bottom line, and
that's what drives every company with at least one bean counter on the
payroll. For that matter, I don't even know any individual developers
who would do this.

Larry

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Poor support for CodeWarrior