Re: No Serial Ports on Notebooks

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

"The Computer Dood" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have had the same problem, but with Desktops.  You are correct, that
> the hardware emulation does not always do the trick...but what does that
> say for us hanging on to "OLD" software.  In my Software Engineering
> classes, we talked about "Life Cycle" of software.  How long should it
> be maintained, and how long should it run before it is rightfully
> retired.

It's not a question of retiring, sometimes you have no choice especially
with discontinued panels like Linear CP-90's, AT&T and old Caddx panels,
that software is DOS only


 I guess the moral is that they built stuff too good back then.
>   What is it you are using that uses DOS anymore?  I used to program
> industrial devices with RS-232 controls, back in the early 1980's.  So
> here we are 20 years later, still clinging to RS232 devices?  Now I buy
> networked (TCP/IP) devices.  The speed difference (156K vs 10Mb) between
> network devices and RS232 Serial is astronomical.  So what is it you are
> using DOS for????????????  It is not even "DOS" anymore, but the command
> shell.

Security system technology still resides somewhere in the 80's