I've not come across it with serial ports but it's a common problem
with older hardware that connected to the system bus- I have several
older GPIB cards that won't run in anything later than a 286 and an
EPROM burner card that won't operate in anything later than a genuine
XT.
DaveB
NZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kenzie" <kenziem_at_sympatico.ca>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: "Old PC" emulation ?
> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 12:43, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>
>> 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 ?
>
> 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.
>
> Another person wanted a 486-66 for a Massspectrometer
>
> 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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