[Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

[Scott Prentice]

This is one of the many reasons that I use a Mac. I've got VMs (Fusion) 
of various versions of Windows so I can run older software on the OS it 
was intended to run on. I can upgrade my hardware and continue to keep 
XP, Win7, etc., around for the software that runs best on each platform. 
No painful migrations, no unexpected incompatibilities.

The problem comes when you expect old software to run on a new OS .. 
it's just doomed from the start. Yes. This setup costs a bit more, but 
in the long run it saves far more money (in time) than I spend in dollars.

Cheers,
...scott



On 3/1/16 12:48 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> FrameMaker 7.2 was released in 2005. There's no reason to upgrade
> something that works, and no reason to spend time and money on
> upgrades to deal with Microsoft compatibility bugs you can solve for
> free.
>
> Switching from 7.2 to 13 (2015) could be a lot of work due to the
> switch to Unicode in version 8. Plus there's the learning curve
> introduced by the weird UI layered on in version 9. If you use
> keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse, the switch could be
> particularly painful.
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Seriously guys, running software released in 2000, 16 years ago on systems
>> with features and software functions that weren't even imagined?
>> This is an exercise for the computer museum, not a production environment.