At 02:49 AM 8/21/2006, Mike wrote:
>Visual Studio 6 with VB6 works fine under Windows XP.
>Keep on using it for the next quarter of century.
>What's the point of your message?

25 years ago there was no IBM PC or Windows. You certainly are optimistic 
about the lifetime of software tools. No doubt you expect Windows XP to be 
around in 25 years as well.


> > designing a GUI in VB6 was much easier and more flexible.
> > Classes were also nice for modularity. However, PB8
> > makes subroutine DLLs and is much more flexible with hardware.
>
>VB6 works fine even on boxes which cost virtually nothing now.
>What hardware are you talking about?

Strange question for PICLIST. "Hardware" refers to connecting external 
devices to the PC and interfacing them directly. E.g., a parallel port 
programmer.

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