At 11:52 AM 8/23/2008, you wrote:
Have a customer running win98 because she has a very old dos program
she runs for book keeping. I seen the program but she has no
intention of updating to anything newer.she exits to dos to run this program.
years ago, I administered many medical offices who clung to their
proprietary expensive DOS software in the Win2K-XP era, because staff
knew how to use it, and because it worked.
I just set up the PCs up to run in DOS windows under Windows 98. Of
course, they were stand alone, or simple network machines.
What changed things was the necessity of being online for insurance
payment purposes. Then they needed wireless, security, ant virus, all
that stuff... in short a modern OS.
But if you are using your stand alone PC like an office appliance,
your 16 bit software does the job, and you have no desire to move on
then why not keep using what works for you.
It is like me using my old Moto720 flip phone. I can't use all that
Iphone goodness without putting on my reading glasses, so why bother
switching when all I really want is a phone I can drop on the floor
and it is still OK!
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Program runs in XP but in a small dos box, anyway to run a full
screen dos box in XP ?
She really needs to update, and I really would like to fix her a new
system ( 10 year old compaq)
I guess I could build her a new Win98 box (cough ) I remember when
Duncan dragged his feet from Win95 >:-}
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thanks
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