Tim - exceptional, thanks. Have to admit I just ordered a Windows 10 Book to use during this transition. I still use DP quite a bit for my election work and even used the old editor when I need to edit an ASCII/DOS document so having it available will be great. On any machine that I might want to do graphics on I go for the 64-bit and either VDOS or VMWare but generally that's an isolated machine that I'm converting old slides on.
Thanks and good hearing from you. There is so little going on with the Discussion Group that I sometimes forget about it. Don *Don FriedmanProfessionalRecords.Com LLCPRS Data Systems* *205 S Main StreetPittsburgh, PA 15215412-784-1600 - 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 Fax* On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Tim Rude <[email protected]> wrote: > Don, > > There is a 32-bit flavor of Windows 10 (both Pro and Home). You're limited > to about 3 1/2 GB of RAM but it works just fine. I've been able to > successfully run DP under it without VDOS. DPSpool works too. The first > time I tried to run DP under Win10-32, it had to install NTVDM which just > took a few seconds. Then it was good to go. > > Tim Rude > > > On 11/9/2015 1:55 PM, Don Friedman wrote: > > I still use DP for my election-related work that involves fairly large > databases. I have kept a couple of boxes that are running VISTA and handle > DP perfectly. I have another box and a laptop that run Win7 which works but > is problematic in that I lose the use of the DOS window after running > reports or imports (these are large reports that may look at many thousands > of records, small reports looking at limited numbers of records generally > stay active). This only means that I have to exit the DOS window and > re-enter the database. The report and import will run its course even after > the window becomes inaccessible. > > Now I want to equip a Win10 laptop to run DP so I can work on the road a > bit better than I have been able to. Would a dual-boot system perhaps work > for me where I boot to either VISTA or Win7? And if the machine is 64-bit > does that screw it up altogether for that purpose? > > I use and appreciate VDOS. Unfortunately, there's something inherent in > either DP or VDOS that makes reports and imports run slowly. Way, way, way > too slowly. Beautifully and dependably but slowly, many times what the same > report or import would run in a DOS box. > > Just checking. Have to figure something out here. > > Don > > > > > > > *Don Friedman ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC PRS Data Systems * > > > > *205 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA 15215 412-784-1600 <412-784-1600> - > 1-800-PRS-FILE 412-784-1615 <412-784-1615> Fax* > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing > [email protected]http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > >
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