Re: No Serial Ports on Notebooks

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

Yea it will run in 95/98 but not XP

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Wow...what torture. I have Ram 2 running on a Pentium 3 laptop with
Win98se.
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> Jim Rojas
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> Crash Gordon wrote:
> > thats why i still have a 486 running dos...so i can still RAM old radx
> > stuff.
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> > "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.
> > |
> > | 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
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