[Info-vax] VTxxx/VMS term driver: bug or feature?

[Paul Sture]

In article <vXlTXuUzVATI at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <iuvf3h$ng2$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm 
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> > 
> > Now, emulators have been there for, say, 20+ years.
> > I have a hard time thinking this is a *real* problem
> > if the emululators still works as they do ("wrong" in
> > your opinion). If this was a real problem, I would have
> > expected this to be "fixed" long ago.
> 
>    Have you actually never dealt with MS?  A reasonable person might
>    think they'd fix HyperTerm decades ago, like back when Hilgreave
>    offered to sell them a fixed version.

Or more recently, fixing Windows 7 Backup.  There were howls of pain 
when that was first seen, and they promised to look into it.

They didn't do a thing about it.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/22/windows_7_backup/

Do read the second page there:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/22/windows_7_backup/page2.html

"As of the last post on the thread, dated June 19, ten months after the 
problem was first highlighted, Microsoft has still not offered any 
response other than the system image workaround."

The other interesting thing on that page is the complaint from the Royal 
Mail's [UK] Chief Technical Architect.  In a Register webcast earlier 
this year the Royal Mail said they had stuck to XP for their current 
deployment effort "because the project was started before the official 
release of Windows 7".

Perhaps. :-)

-- 
Paul Sture