Re: No Serial Ports on Notebooks

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"The Computer Dood" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

> 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.  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.

It is still often easier to write a custom utility in basic or C+ or CHASM
if you really want speed to run under DOS.  Faster smaller code that can
sort or datamine or convert the format of a huge data file in a fraction of
the time of any ANY Winblows application.




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