On 12/20/2014 3:29 PM, "mark lewis" wrote:
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>   On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Al Kaiser wrote to All:
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>   AK> I guess that "someday" I'm going to have change this computer over
>   AK> from XP to Windows 7.
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>   AK> Simple question, does Terminate run under Windows 7?
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> my best guess is possibly in some sort of virtual dosbox emulator thing... i
> can't/won't test it because we stopped using m$ schtuff with vista ;)
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> )\/(ark
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I'm definitely not the most qualified person to answer, as I haven't 
used Terminate much, but based on my reading, I'll try to advise as best 
I can:

If you have a DOS program working successfully on Windows XP 32-bit (I 
maintain a few machines with this sort of a configuration for my own 
retro-computing reasons), and you are doing this without the addition of 
any DOS emulators outside of what is built into WinXP32 by MicroSoft, 
then it should continue to work on ONLY 32-BIT versions of Windows Vista 
and 7. 64-bit versions, which became much more common in the last few 
years with the Intel i3/5/7 processors, lose the 16-bit DOS 
compatibility layer.

I'd test it for you and try to give you a definitive answer, but all of 
my hardware that runs anything newer than XP is also 64-bit, so I don't 
have a handy test-bed. I think the most practical advice I could give 
would be to MAINTAIN your XP System(s) for backwards compatibility and 
"retro" computing stuff, as I have and start looking for a budget new 
computer that ships with 7 installed. Assuming you were getting a legal 
license for Win7, the cost of hardware and the cost of the license could 
be about the same depending on where you get the computer.

Anyway, I hope that was helpful, and good luck! See you out there. /TLR0
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