On 4 February 2016 at 15:17, Dale H. Cook <radiot...@juno.com> wrote: > It is unusable in one important way. This thread began as a discussion of > running serial port terminal emulators on a PC. At work I still use some > MS-DOS programs (admittedly not terminal emulators) over serial ports. For my > purposes (setting up a variety of vintage specialized hardware over RS-232) > NT-based operating systems are sometimes unusable because they present the > application program with a virtual serial port, and MS-DOS programs running > under those operating systems cannot read from or write to the UART > registers. Some of the setup programs for that vintage hardware were written > before the mid-1990s and access the UART registers, so I have to run those > under Win98 or earlier. I have a portable MS-DOS 3.3 machine that I use to > set up that vintage hardware.
A fair point, but then, one is not going to use MS-DOS to browse the Web in 2016, right? Even the handful of ancient DOS web browsers can't handle the modern Web. There's a big difference between a "daily driver" and a specialist tool. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
