Re: WIN XP and DOS Emulation

On Jun 28, 7:15 pm, RFI-EMI-GUY <Rhyol...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What is the trick to getting my old DOS programs to run under WIN
XP?
> Some work some don't. For example with WIN98 I could run all DOS
> programs very well including some radio programming software that
> although the serial interface was too fast to read/write a radio,
I
> could edit codeplugs with the "UBer" computer and use my slow 486
to
> program the radios.
>
> Now these same programs don't seem to do anything except open a
dos window.
>
> --
> Joe Leikhim K4SAT
> "The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

Athlon XP (4years old) is just fine with MS-DOS 6.22 in multiple boot.
I have a machine at work that boots DOS, Win XP pro, or Win 98se. On
the faster machines there were some quirks in DOS with Borland's CRT
unit that caused "divide by 0" errors (IIRC) but a patch fixed that
up.

G²
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