Re: No Serial Ports on Notebooks

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thats why i still have a 486 running dos...so i can still RAM old radx
stuff.



"Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| "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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Security system technology still resides somewhere in the 80's
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