Re: No Serial Ports on Notebooks

["Roland More" <NoSpamroland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I never understood the Corporate Edition name when Kantech doesn't even make
an 8 door panel (that I have ever seen). Some corporate.
Does Kantech believe someone would actually pick over the counter Kantach as
a first choice for a large corporate environment just to mount walls full of
2 door panels? Even Keyscan has an eight door panel.

"Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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
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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
>> |
>> |
>> | 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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