Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:58:14 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Subject: Re: old scsi adapters and the benefits of open source [was: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]] Message-ID: <6d0f6ca428b7b2c085df02fdcaaff3be@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <1111507893.751.298.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> References: <423E116D.50805@usmstudent.com> <423EEE60.2050205@dial.pipex.com> <eeef1a4c0503211224572d64e4@mail.gmail.com> <eeef1a4c050322010021fd8eb4@mail.gmail.com> <334ed8bd3d1e5ee9582b706d65919fb4@chrononomicon.com> <20050322133006.GB22896@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <Pine.OSX.4.61.0503220838370.23402@valkyrie.local> <1111507893.751.298.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com>
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On Mar 22, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Peter Risdon wrote: > By contrast, I maintain a networked Windows machine that controls > plasma > cutting systems for a manufacturing business. It uses a serial port > connection to send cutting patterns to the plasma controller. The > serial > port communications software was custom-written and runs only on > versions of DOS that shipped with Windows up to and including 98. It is > specifically incompatible with Win ME and all the NT family including > XP > and 2000/2003. I don't have access to the source code either of the > custom application or any currently maintained version of Windows (of > course), so no hacked upgrades are possible and we have to run Win 98 - > which is desperately horrible and insecure in a networked environment. I don't use Vmware, but what you describe sounds like a good application for it. Run a Win98 virtual machine. Let a modern OS host, wrap and protect the virtual machine. Do all the networking with the host. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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