jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) (06/13/90)
With all the furor, gnashing of teeth, and screams to vendors who are slow with updates to WIN2 products which don't work with WIN3, I find it somewhat bizarre that among the few old apps which run exactly as intended under WIN3 and don't generate the "OLD APPLICATION" warning are the screen- destroying gimmicks passed around net.land a year or two ago. These include "Measles", "Slug", "Blast", and (my favorite) "Bitrot". There's probably some deep revelation one could find in the situation in which useful programs bomb on WIN3 until they're upgraded, but the gimmicks run fine. Of course, in this business we need all the laughs we can get...I wish I had a picture of our user support manager's face the first time she tried BLAST without knowing what it did... BTW: Just who *did* write these programs? I've never seen any attribution, or if I did I can't find it.