[rescue] Another fine business decision for us axp-lovers

[Joshua D. Boyd]

But, there were also a lot of programs that used MGA and CGA/EGA/VGA, all
of which are handled by DOSEMU and in theory most modern video cards.
Further, there used to be TSRs to slow a machine down (used to use them on
my 386 to play XT games), and I believe that DOSEMU also has that
functionality, although I've never tested it.

DOSEMU also handles alot/most of the hardware calls (at least is does on
the 32bit I have that used direct hardware calls).

Besides, unlike an IBM, who would want to run such old software for the
most part.  I just was commenting that in practice a lot of that old
software runs, even if it might have occasional snags.  On the otherhand,
You can't really run 19 year old Apple programs (unless Apple2 emulators
got a lot better recently), nor can you run 19year old SUN programs.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 
>   I think the number of packages that would operate correctly is
> smaller than you think.
> 
>   Many packages were hard-coded for certain types of video cards (when
> was the last time you saw a Hercules-compatible mono card?) and had
> timing loops that depended on certain processors operating at a
> certain speed.  Many packages also talked directly to hardware because
> the "OS" (MS/PC-DOS, the glorified program loader) provided virtually
> NO usable services to application programs.
> 
>   Most early PC programmers were one step out of their VIC-20s when they
> got a job programming PCs with Turbo-C, and it shows.
> 
>           -Dave McGuire
> 
> On June 25, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Oddly enough, I think that most PC software from when PCs were new can
> > still be run, even on modern systems like linux. Not a 30-40 year
> > tradition like IBM, but still decent.  I don't think there is any chance
> > of running 20 year old Sun software on a modern sun.
> > 
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> > 
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, James Fogg wrote:
> > 
> > > Whenever a company says "The bottom line is: we are creating great customer
> > > value", I run and hide (this is a quote from their website). Real customer
> > > value is when you can write software once and just update the hardware (like
> > > the IBM mainframe aproach).
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, THOU SPAKE:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:06:03AM -0400, Larry Snyder wrote:
> > > > > http://www.compaq.com/hps/ipf-enterprise/index.html
> > > > 
> > > > "Read what our customers are saying"
> > > > 
> > > > Heh.  I *know* what the customers are saying.
> > > > "Oh FUCK!  Shouldnt have just bought that new Alpha system..."
> > > > 
> > > > 8-)
> > > > 
> > > > Bill
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Bill Bradford
> > > > mrbill at mrbill.net
> > > > Austin, TX
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