(October 3, 2011 at 8:35 pm)IATIA Wrote: 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.
Maybe I am missing something, but last I checked, forwarding serial ports from the hosts USB>Serial dongle will provide serial IO to the virtual machine as if it was a real serial port, which is what you want, right?
As long as DOS sees a real serial port (even if it is being transparently encapsulated to the USB dongle and then excised to be sent to the serial part of the usb->serial dongle), your programs should operate.
(October 3, 2011 at 8:35 pm)IATIA Wrote: 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.
Talented programmers did write GUI's for UNIX -- the result was W, X, and NeWs. They weren't terribly successful, and the most successful piece, X, is widely reviled for it's "Everything-And-The-Kitchen-Sink" architecture.
You seem to be stuck in the past on the quality of coders -- I'd like to point out that back then, working close to the metal was common for a programmer. Nowadays, hardware and software is so complex that most people can only specialize in one, with the rare systems architect or PhD EECS usually skilled in both.
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