Tuesday, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:18
I understand the trendy need to upgrade and have the latest but that is most assuredly not our policy. Put it this way Stephen. Have you used the free Win 10 version upgrade? I hope not.
This is why I do not update.
Once upon a time software was fully tested before it was released. Apple continued this process but Bill Gates, despite his mates advice, didn't and only saw the dollar bills. Hence his msdos and system files had and still have errors. And we still suffer from them these days. Not so with Apple, Unix etc. Some errors but not as bad.
I wrote a program, that's what apps used to be called, in 1983-5 that managed the log, frequencies, equipment, ips prediction, path calculator, contact names and addresses, countries and all manner of documentation for an amateur radio hobbyist. It had over 100 thousand lines of code, mostly Pascal but included good old machine code packages for the direct hardware interface to manage remote radio control, antenna control and packet (now internet) modem and radio interfaces. It also included a rewrite of the msdos and io.sys system files that was the platform for the Windows equipment. It still runs on IBM PCs up to and including Windows 8 (untested with Win 10). One whole year testing by my wife some mates and myself. Not one error left and none found since release.
That is why I don't automatically update. I let people like yourself "test" it for me.
Phil
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