Derek Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to beg to differ. It's often the case SW can't be run on XP/2000 > from Win 9*. This is because it's 32 bit Vs 16 bit. A lot of the hooks, > just plain don't work.
Although this thread gets rather off-topic: since Windows 95, the Win32 API is used. 16 bit API was used until Win 3.11 or WfW (although there was the Win32s extension). Not many really important changes and extensions were made to the Win32 API since Win95, and (besides drivers) there are _very_ little things working with Win9x but not NT-based OS (NT4, W200, XP). You should avoid to use specific things in software for long-lived and expensive equipment and use only the common Win32 functions. And people should should to use common hardware interfaces for such devices. Ethernet seems to be the best choice with a perfect API support, always present on recent PCs. Oliver -- Oliver Betz, Muenchen
