Actually I use DOS because I use an antique office package "Open Access
IV". It works for me, does it's job very nicely and has survived nearly 25
years without a virus etc. I can write a program using the word processor,
database and language calls in a quarter of the time it would take on other
p
There should also be made a distinction between real time input and real
time output and servo loop. If you are capturing timing events you really
only need to respond to an event and store a time for later processing. I
usually use a microcontroller and write a routine around its interrupts so
tha
drive and my OA4 (in XP DOS) works just fine in my Linux Samba network.
Under freeDOS etc it needs netBIOS running, then it runs into trouble with
file locks etc. It would be great to have it work like it does under XP DOS,
having the NE2000 abstraction etc built in.
Regards
Mark Littlejohn
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The way this post has degenerated I think demonstrates exactly what the
original poster was trying to say. Somehow the replies became fixed on his
comment about use of language. I think what he was really trying to get at
is the lack of being able to support a point of view from a logically
constru
