On Mar 22, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Peter Risdon wrote:
By contrast, I maintain a networked Windows machine that controls plasma
cutting systems for a manufacturing business. It uses a serial port
connection to send cutting patterns to the plasma controller. The serial
port communications software was custom-written and runs only on
versions of DOS that shipped with Windows up to and including 98. It is
specifically incompatible with Win ME and all the NT family including XP
and 2000/2003. I don't have access to the source code either of the
custom application or any currently maintained version of Windows (of
course), so no hacked upgrades are possible and we have to run Win 98 -
which is desperately horrible and insecure in a networked environment.
I don't use Vmware, but what you describe sounds like a good application for it. Run a Win98 virtual machine. Let a modern OS host, wrap and protect the virtual machine. Do all the networking with the host.
-- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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