>From: "Mike Kenzie" <kenziem_at_sympatico.ca>
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>On Tuesday 02 November 2004 12:43, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> So.. what it boils down to is: is there any (serious) project on doing
>> a "old pc systems" emulation a la SimH, which does, for example, a
>> pure IBM PC, PC/XT or PC/AT ?
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>I had a request yesterday for a 286 or earlier machine, the person says
>that somethings with the serial ports changed after that and the test
>equipment gets communication errors on newer machines.
Hi
For serial, it might be that one just needs to keep windows
from fiddling with the port when another program is using it.
This may not be a processor dependent issue.
Dwight
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>Another person wanted a 486-66 for a Massspectrometer
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>I know there was a problem with games that were written using the system
>speed to time loops, I guess this also occurred in test equipment.
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