At 08:23 2013-07-08, Alan Bourke <alanpbourke@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 8, 2013, at 04:13 PM, Kevin Cully wrote:

> > I've got a client that has been running a Foxpro DOS application for

> > years and years, they're happy with it and they aren't going to change

> > or rewrite it.

> >

> > Any tips from the Foxpro DOS pros? Is it time to get them into some

> > sort of VM?

>

>You could try a VM but running what? Unless you want to source MS-DOS

>6.22 or Windows 3.11?

>

> > Perhaps DOSBox?

>

>DosBOX will certainly run FPD, but I would have concerns over printing,

>and if it's a networked application then forget it as DosBOX doesn't

>have any TCP/IP stack support.

Vanilla DOSBox does not have printing, but there is a version

that does. TCP/IP is being done somehow by some gamers.

More importantly, DOSBox is intended for games. The authors

have made that abundantly plain over the years. Until recently, I

used it for years to run WordStar and had no problems -- I then found

VDE and have not had to use DOSBox for months now -- but do not count

on any support.

DOSBox is somewhat slow. This did not show up with using

WordStar, but I have some 16-bit utilities that I wrote and running

on faster hardware but under Windows 7 and DOSBox, one program took

15 times longer to run than under native XP.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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