slow response to keypresses

[inkleputDEL]

XP Pro SP2 - 1700 Centrino chip.

I have a DOS program that is unreplacable for my purpose. I run it full
screen at 25 lines. Much of the time, display response to keypresses
takes several seconds - probably after a few minutes of use. This never
happened under real DOS or Win 98SE.

Is there anything that can be done about it?


JimL

 

[Malke]

XP Pro SP2 - 1700 Centrino chip.

I have a DOS program that is unreplacable for my purpose. I run it full
screen at 25 lines. Much of the time, display response to keypresses
takes several seconds - probably after a few minutes of use. This never
happened under real DOS or Win 98SE.

Is there anything that can be done about it?

Probably not. A better solution since you must use this program is to
get Virtual PC or VMWare and create a virtual machine running DOS. Then
you can run the program natively with XP as the host.

Questions about Virtual PC can be asked in its newsgroup:
microsoft.public.virtualpc


Malke

 

[inkleputDEL]

Probably not. A better solution since you must use this program is to
get Virtual PC or VMWare and create a virtual machine running DOS. Then
you can run the program natively with XP as the host.

Questions about Virtual PC can be asked in its newsgroup:
microsoft.public.virtualpc

Malke

I see. So the slowness is intended.

Thanks

JimL

 

[Malke]

I see. So the slowness is intended.

I have no idea what you mean by that. If your DOS program doesn't work
well under XP's emulator - and there is no DOS in XP - then run it
natively as I previously suggested.


Malke

 

[inkleputDEL]

(e-mail address removed) wrote:

I have no idea what you mean by that.

Malke

I mean there are truck loads of Microsoft programmers perfectly capable of
doing as competent a job with a DOS emulator as various other operating
systems have done for many years. Whatever XP does about backward
compability, it does by the choice of someone other than a code writer.

JimL

 

[Malke]

I mean there are truck loads of Microsoft programmers perfectly capable of
doing as competent a job with a DOS emulator as various other operating
systems have done for many years. Whatever XP does about backward
compability, it does by the choice of someone other than a code writer.

JimL

I can assure you that Microsoft isn't interested in spending resources
on supporting a dead operating system. Complaining about it is useless;
I gave you one solution.

I'm out of this thread now.

Malke