Dieter Blaas wrote:
Hi,
I have a temperature / humidity sensor that sends frequency
modulated data to the com port. The program collecting them
runs under DOS (up to Win98). I can run two DOS Windows
with two sensors without any problems from within Win98.
Migrating to WinXP, I have tried to emulate DOS with DOSBox,
VirtualPC, and VMWare but in all cases the data are wrogly
interpreted in that the values are unreliable. This appears to be
a timing problem.
Does anybody know whether DOSEmu under Linux would do
the job correctly?
It perhaps depends how fast meteo sensors are sending data to PC. As
faster it does as less probable it is, that it will work properly in
operating system running in virtual machine.
Additionally it also depends how the serial port reading is being done.
If using BIOS calls directly then You may perhaps be out of lack. If it
is interrupt based, then it may possibly work in DOSEMU, but I don't
really know.
I would recommend using Linux directly if possible.
I am a LINUX beginner and would only try it
when there is a good chance of success.....
So perhaps it is good time to begin to learn.
Andris
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