celeron processor and DOS application compatibility?

[Guest]

Are there any known issue with DOS application and P4 Celeron processor?

I am having some strange problems with this new machine running XP SP1
with Celeron 2.4Ghz processor.

Everything in window works great, but some DOS applications, command
line ones, fails to start/display information correctly. However they
do seem to get executed correctly. Something's wrong with the
displaying routine.

Why am I posting on this group?

when I do gcc -v on this machine, I get

Reading specs from c:/devtools/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/3.31/specs

and that's it! if I run gcc by itself, I get nothing.

the classic PGP 2.6 also fails to display information correctly. (pgp
-kv does not display any user) however pgp -e (to encrypt) seems to
work correctly.

I compiled a hello_work app using djgpp, nothing gets displayed.

I have another machine, a almost identical P4, everything works great....

Has anyone seen this before?

Raymond

 

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

[Missing F'up2 amended.]

Are there any known issue with DOS application and P4 Celeron
processor?

None we would have heard of. But I don't see your problem having
anything particular to do with the processor, from your description.
I suspect you're jumping to conclusions by blaming it on the CPU.

Everything in window works great, but some DOS applications, command
line ones, fails to start/display information correctly. However they
do seem to get executed correctly. Something's wrong with the
displaying routine.

Which rather strongly points in the direction of your graphics
hardware and its assorted software helpers (firmware, drivers) rather
than the CPU, doesn't it?

Try some of the console programs that are part of the XP itself, e.g.

dir c:\djgpp

type c:\djgpp\djgpp.env

more < c:\djgpp\djgpp.env

net help

Does their display come out as expected?