Larry - how do you deal with security issues for Windows XP, since it went end-of-life 2 years ago? I bet it's a nightmare dealing with that.

At least Windows 7 is good until 2020 for extended support (although mainstream support ended last year).

For me, I don't know if it's a matter of under- or over-whelmed, but Win10 has so far been pretty stable on both my computers (as well as my wife's laptop) and that was with the in-place upgrade.

I've done a clean install on a new disk for my laptop, but until I find time to reload all the apps, I'll have to stick with my in-place upgrade.

I hear you about needing the old O/S for your serial port stuff. Luckily, I don't have to worry about that.

By the way, I still fire up MS-DOS occasionally, if for anything, to remind myself how far we've come. There was a time when I did a lot of writing with WordStar, later WordPerfect, as well as database work using dBase III or Borland Paradox, and programming in Turbo Pascal.

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John

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