>> I tried running dos on one of my Win XP computers some time
>> back. Found there were no drivers available for most functions
>> above basic operation. Esp video.

 KW> I haven't tried getting sound running. I used an old 3c509
 KW> network card, because I wanted to use packet drivers and I
 KW> *knew* it would work. I'm running MINUET (an internet
 KW> application suite) in VESA mode, it'll do 1024x768x16m.

 Maybe I just didn't try hard enough. Dos does work, shelled from
 XP on out computers at work. We use it to talk to the production
 machines. However, that isn't actually running dos.

 I have thought of putting it on with system commander to see if
 it will work better. XP machines running dos are notoriously
 unreliable. OTOH, I wonder if the hardware isn't as good, as
 they don't expect us to use dos, and it may depend more on
 drivers than hardware. One of our traveling engineers bought a
 PCMCIA card for serial ports, and he says it works good.

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