What about setting up one box with an older windows server and run terminal services. Then any box with remote desktop will work and you only have to keep one old machine.
--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul McNett <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Run Foxpro 2.6 for DOS and Foxpro 2.6 for Windows on 64-bit > Windows? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 10:22 AM > On 1/29/10 1:35 AM, Bill Arnold > wrote: > > > >> Short of creating a 32-bit VM, is there any way I > can run FoxPro > >> 2.6 for DOS or FoxPro 2.6 for Windows applications > on a 64 bit > >> version of Windows Vista or Windows 7 > Professional? > >> > >> Is there a tool like TameDOS that would enable us > to run these > >> applications on newer hardware? > > > > > > I'd favor the VM approach. I think we're all going to > wind up running VM > > anyway. > > > > No, I'm not using it yet. I'm still reeling from the > fact that it requires a > > host OS. Cheap way out, and I think it makes the > machine vulnerable to > > attack. But I suspect a better VM will come along at > some point. I know > > IBM's VM is exactly what we'd like to have (it doesn't > require a host). > > You could set up a Linux box to boot right into a VM > running DOS or Windows 3.1. From > the user's POV, it would be totally native. > > Paul > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
