Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2022-02-08 Thread Frantisek Rysanek
On 8 Feb 2022 at 23:03, Eric Auer wrote: > > How about a Linux with proper RT config and drivers, > maybe even on a Raspberry-style computer to do I/O > with that ancient A/D converter hardware? ;-) > > Depending on how many channels you need, you could > also try something like Red Pitaya: > > h

Re: [Freedos-user] which mpxplay?

2022-02-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi bear, Thanks for this. sorry needed to check. it seems I have mpxplay 147 156 157 and 159. I have not tried 166 but will seek that out. I am not running freedos, but a ms dos 7.1 package on a Pentium 3 machine. the best news for me here is that I can perhaps manipulate the ini file? This s

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2022-02-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! handful of DOS-based control PC's with obscure I/O hardware (fast-paced low-latency 16bit DC-referenced analog input), and an amazing but abandoned/unmaintained/closed-source modular multi-tasking real-time control system (1 ms scheduler clock) How about a Linux with proper RT config and

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2022-02-08 Thread Bret Johnson
I don't know how much you're willing to rewrite your program, or how much you're willing to make fundamental changes to how it works since it may corrupt what you've already done, but this solution may be worth a shot. I'm doing something similar in some of my other programs (not related to ser

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2022-02-08 Thread G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user
Hi there, On Mon, 7 Feb 2022, Michael Brutman wrote: ... This really isn't relevant to FreeDOS. I guess clutching at straws I was hoping that the FreeDOS community might be able to say "Oh, you need Joe's Interrupt Router at http://..."; I have no wish to offend, so I'm out of here now unles

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2022-02-08 Thread Frantisek Rysanek
On 7 Feb 2022 at 21:58, Michael Brutman wrote: > > This has all been terribly interesting, but I can't help but think: > * This product should have been ported to a more capable operating > system years ago. > * The inner workings of how the product was made to run under DOS seems >

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2022-02-08 Thread Michael Brutman
This has all been terribly interesting, but I can't help but think: - This product should have been ported to a more capable operating system years ago. - The inner workings of how the product was made to run under DOS seems to have rotted away. - This really isn't relevant to FreeD

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

2022-02-08 Thread Frantisek Rysanek
On 8 Feb 2022 at 0:17, G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user wrote: > Just a quick 'thank you'. > entirely welcome... I'm always happy if my superficial scribbling helps someone. > Yeah, sorry, I realized that after I hit 'ctrl-X' (that's what passes > for clicking 'send' on my mail client, which doesn