Between Windows 95 and Windows XP ????

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Calamity Jane

I replaced my old Windows 95, 100 MHz Pentium machine with
a new 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 machine last winter running
Windows XP. Eventually I discovered that I can not run my
(very expensive) 15 year old DOS-based microprocessor
development system under Windows XP because the
development system requires direct access to the COM ports
in order to communicate with its external hardware.

After deliberating what to do for some time, I have a
development job pending and decided to install removeable
hard drives - put XP on one and load Windows 95 on the
other - so I could bring the machine up on either OS
without interference from the other.

After investing a few hundred dollars in more hard drives,
mobile shelves and rebuilding the machine, I find that
Windows 95 will not run above 1 GHz!

Ok, Windows 95 wont run, Windows XP hides the COM ports
from the application programs.

I need something inbetween! I need something that will run
at 2.4 GHz but DOESN'T scre# around with the COM ports.

Does anybody know for sure about the intermediate OSs,
like 98, 2000?
 
Calamity Jane said:
I replaced my old Windows 95, 100 MHz Pentium machine with
a new 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 machine last winter running
Windows XP. Eventually I discovered that I can not run my
(very expensive) 15 year old DOS-based microprocessor
development system under Windows XP because the
development system requires direct access to the COM ports
in order to communicate with its external hardware.

After deliberating what to do for some time, I have a
development job pending and decided to install removeable
hard drives - put XP on one and load Windows 95 on the
other - so I could bring the machine up on either OS
without interference from the other.

After investing a few hundred dollars in more hard drives,
mobile shelves and rebuilding the machine, I find that
Windows 95 will not run above 1 GHz!

Ok, Windows 95 wont run, Windows XP hides the COM ports
from the application programs.

I need something inbetween! I need something that will run
at 2.4 GHz but DOESN'T scre# around with the COM ports.

Does anybody know for sure about the intermediate OSs,
like 98, 2000?
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It sounds like your current XP system is formatted to NTFS, which is why
your DOS-based programming won't work.

Win98SE will run it just fine, and is way better than Win95 (avoid WinME).
Windows 2000 is typically run on NTFS format, so that would not help you.

Probably simplest solution would be to set up a dual-boot feature. Do a
Google search for "dual boot XP Win98" or something like that, there is
plenty of info out there. Microsoft's Knowledge Base (on their website)
also has info on how to do this.
 
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