[Gllug] HSBC problems!

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:

> What term would you use instead to describe systems that are still in
> operation but effectively unsupported (or soon to be unsupported) by
> the vendor?

I wouldn't use that as the definition.  I think the sense of the 
standard dictionary definition is closer to the truth.  In other words, 
something inherited due to decisions made by someone else.  In practical 
terms, this means something you wouldn't choose to use today, but you 
have to support because it does something important that you don't want 
to have to re-implement.

Many of these legacy systems are, indeed, actively well-supported by 
their vendors, which was likely a large part of the decision to use 
them in the first place.  Something people implementing important 
applications on today's versions of Windows should take into account 
when choosing a platform!

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
www.rumble.net

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