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M Philbrook

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On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:02:05 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:28:03 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

I'm getting the general impression that I should avoid 64-bit to make
sure that my legacy programs will still work. Is that correct?

...Jim Thompson
--

No, you should make the jump and adapt (with VMware or some other
method) or dump the really old 16 bit programs. Most 32 bit stuff will
still run. It's time, and it will be the last major change for a very
long time.

--sp

Is there any way to tell what type a specific program is? I haven't
updated my PSpice since 2003 when OrCAD Crapture and Cadence stopped
improving PSpice (simulator) and tried to force everyone onto Crapture
:-(

...Jim Thompson

that shuold work just fine, I doubt very much if that has 16 bit code
in it.

There is DosBox however, don't expect to do anything in DosBox that
may involve a direct port read/write device, to work.

There are some printer drivers and serial drivers that do emulate a
direct port read/write, but don't depend on it working because many
devices that did that back then also used software timing loops for
reads/writes and that most likely will fail..

Jamie