slow response to keypresses

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inkleputDEL

XP Pro SP2 - 1700 Centrino chip.

I have a DOS program that is unreplacable for my purpose. I run it full
screen at 25 lines. Much of the time, display response to keypresses
takes several seconds - probably after a few minutes of use. This never
happened under real DOS or Win 98SE.

Is there anything that can be done about it?


JimL
 
XP Pro SP2 - 1700 Centrino chip.

I have a DOS program that is unreplacable for my purpose. I run it full
screen at 25 lines. Much of the time, display response to keypresses
takes several seconds - probably after a few minutes of use. This never
happened under real DOS or Win 98SE.

Is there anything that can be done about it?
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Probably not. A better solution since you must use this program is to
get Virtual PC or VMWare and create a virtual machine running DOS. Then
you can run the program natively with XP as the host.

Questions about Virtual PC can be asked in its newsgroup:
microsoft.public.virtualpc


Malke
 
Probably not. A better solution since you must use this program is to
get Virtual PC or VMWare and create a virtual machine running DOS. Then
you can run the program natively with XP as the host.
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Questions about Virtual PC can be asked in its newsgroup:
microsoft.public.virtualpc
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Malke
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I see. So the slowness is intended.

Thanks

JimL
 
I see. So the slowness is intended.
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I have no idea what you mean by that. If your DOS program doesn't work
well under XP's emulator - and there is no DOS in XP - then run it
natively as I previously suggested.


Malke
 
Malke said:
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I have no idea what you mean by that.
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Malke
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I mean there are truck loads of Microsoft programmers perfectly capable of
doing as competent a job with a DOS emulator as various other operating
systems have done for many years. Whatever XP does about backward
compability, it does by the choice of someone other than a code writer.

JimL
 
I mean there are truck loads of Microsoft programmers perfectly capable of
doing as competent a job with a DOS emulator as various other operating
systems have done for many years. Whatever XP does about backward
compability, it does by the choice of someone other than a code writer.

JimL
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I can assure you that Microsoft isn't interested in spending resources
on supporting a dead operating system. Complaining about it is useless;
I gave you one solution.

I'm out of this thread now.

Malke
 
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