I couldn't agree more. I was a maintenance programmer/developer for 30 years and saw too much of this. It disgusted me to the point where I just rewrote entire

I couldn't agree more. I was a maintenance programmer/developer for 30 years and saw too much of this. It disgusted me to the point where I just rewrote entire systems during slow periods (unauthorized and on the sly). The Amiga OS had full multi-tasking with robust, inter-process messaging, and a full-featured windowed GUI that fit onto one 720K floppy so there is no valid reason that we need multi-gigs for the current version of Windows. I'm posting a link to your excellent article on Daniweb to encourage discussion. Reverend Jim (on Daniweb)