From: bcoryell@chesco.com   
      
   Michael Swift wrote:   
   > Years ago when I had an Amstrad 6128 I wrote a basic program to track my   
   > accounts, it was a virtual envelopes in a tin job for gas, electric etc.   
   >   
   > When I got a 386 16 I reworked it in QB45, it's served me well for 15   
   > years without a problem.   
   >   
   > I ran it today and it was taking ages to recognise key strokes, I could   
   > enter text, numbers etc and it would do as told but many seconds later   
   > so the information was going into the buffer.   
   >   
   > I still have a copy of QB45 so ran that and tried to write a short basic   
   > program and had the same slow recognition of input.   
   >   
   > I'm posting in the hope there are still some people in here who   
   > understand DOS and could tell me what's happening as I would miss my   
   > little program.   
   >   
   > Regards.   
   > Mike   
   >   
   I think, in XP, it has to go into a DOS emulation mode to run this old   
   stuff, so that's probably where the hangup is.   
      
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