On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 18:58 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > 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.
Yes, that's a good idea. Thanks. It also addresses the problem I didn't mention of having to use old hardware (contemporary with W98) in a key role. Peter. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
