sorry about the post but this is only news group I use
I have an old dos business program that will only run on 486 computers it
wont run on any pentium class computer can anybody throw any light on this?
"John Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> sorry about the post but this is only news group I use
>
> I have an old dos business program that will only run on 486 computers it
> wont run on any pentium class computer can anybody throw any light onthis?
probably the program contained code that depended on the architecture of
the old chips. With the pentium, some of that was changed and could render
programs unuseable. Other reasons may be, the sheer speed of the newer
chips make the old programs unuseable, and finally if you have the
latest/greatest versions of windows, you just DON'T have the dos code there
to run old dos programs.
dave henrie
John Johnson wrote:
>
> sorry about the post but this is only news group I use
>
> I have an old dos business program that will only run on 486 computers it
> wont run on any pentium class computer can anybody throw any light on this?
If it's a matter of the CPU being too fast, there are programs that will
slow down your PC, I think one of them was called "moslo" or something
like that, I read about this in another NG a few years back, people
trying to play "Ports of call" on fast PC's used this program
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"Operation Clambake" http://www.xenu.net/
"Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life"
--Chuck Jones (1912-2002)--
We used something called CPUKiller at work to make the old FoxPro
database work on faster CPUs.
from the readme.txt: www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/3648
Don't know if it is still there, this was 1998 or so.
HTH,
Gerald
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