Re: No Serial Ports on Notebooks

["Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>]

ever heard of Microsoft virtual pc?

Been able to use an Old Kl8000 database from kantech in a set-up that
consisted of 3 virtual Dos 6.22 machine,they were all connected together
with simulatation of rs232 port that were in software and the connection to
the hardware controller was redirected to a USB serial port..

all was well and it worked for hours at a time..

this was to help transfer the info from the old software to the Entrpass
Corporate edition...


"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
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> 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
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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.
> |
> | Security system technology still resides somewhere in the 80's
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