(October 3, 2011 at 7:58 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote:(October 3, 2011 at 6:40 pm)IATIA Wrote: As I stated,I am a MAC guy (for now), I only use windows in my work environment. The communications systems programs I use are not yet compatible with Vista or 7. My toughbook has three partitions, MSDOS, Win98 and XP. Yes, some software in my field still only runs in DOS and most of those cannot run in a DOS shell. So this even limits the machines I can use. No USB-serial, hard port only.Have you considered using virtualization and USB dongles for legacy ports in conjunction with USB pass through to said VMs, Grandpa?
Does not work. Motorola is the worst offender with hard coded port access and handshaking. Some of the older Kenwood programs, same thing. If the computer does not have a standard serial port these programs will not work. A couple written in assembly I was able to modify, but reverse engineering C is more trouble than it is worth. Hopefully these legacy programs will die out with their counterparts, but I expected that ten years ago.
Quote:"Get off my lawn" much?What we need is a team of programmers like that to write the GUI for UNIX, then we would have a user-friendly, user-concentric multi-tasking system to be proud of and actually works.
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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