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| Thread ID: 70242 | 2006-06-26 16:19:00 | A juicy WfW 3.11 problem! | rburgess3 (10624) | Press F1 |
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| 466443 | 2006-06-27 08:26:00 | Heh, I know the feeling with having to run ancient operating systems due to attached instruments. Sigh, they are still selling medical equipment where the PC is running Windows NT 4 :yuck: I'd disable the on-board NIC and throw in an old model PCI network card. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 466444 | 2006-06-27 10:15:00 | There are a lot of people who willingly live in the dark ages . What you're saying is if you'd been travelling by horse and cart for years, and the horse died, because the cart was so expensive you'd want to get another horse instead of a car! :lol: No, I'm saying I won't spend another $60,000 for the dubious pleasure of running XP when I can find an adequate work-around to keep my Dos and WFWG programs operational, and stick with the instruments I've got . Changing the OS won't improve the technical outcomes, and Dos/WFWG are lightning fast on a modern computer . I don't call that living, I call it dying in debt for the sake of creeping elegance . Truthfully, in my shoes which would you prefer Greg? $60,000 to hand for other more pressing needs, and the occasional use of a legacy OS; or the sixty grand expended solely in order to work exclusively with XP or some other bells & whistles OS? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 466445 | 2006-06-28 04:11:00 | Many real uses for computers don't need any operating system. All that's needed is a programme loader. Often not even a file system is not needed, except to store the executable code. So why should anyone use an "operating system" which uses enoprmous amounts of disk and memory space for itself in its sole function, which is slowing the computer down? Billy and gibler have probably struck the problem that many realtime applications need direct access to the hardware registers. An OS which prevents that is not helpful. Even if there are work-arounds it's a problem. I will continue to use DOS. Micrososft can't stop me. WFW 3.11 won't be a maintenance problem. It just goes and goes. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 466446 | 2006-06-28 07:54:00 | I like Billy idea, Virtual PC for 3.11...LOL it would fly on newer equipment, I'm surpriced you got it to run period on that dual core processor. 3.11 wouldnt have a clue what it was!...LOL I think you have already identified the problem being the NIC, but a couple of bright sparkes have already suggested replacing the NIC with an older version. I must say however the virtual pc idea gives a better pathway to upgrading/support, as well as a more stable platform. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 466447 | 2006-06-28 11:20:00 | Windows 3.1!?! :yuck: :eek: No Windows 3.11 :D |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 466448 | 2006-06-28 23:29:00 | I agree that the NIC is too new . . . but a computer like that isn't gonna have ISA . . . Still, and old PCI card should do fine . I myself have WFWG 3 . 11 running fine on my network, and sharing files with XP . but I did need to install an update for the TCP/IP to get it working properly . have you tried that?? |
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