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07/08/1999 09:33:56
 
 
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07/08/1999 03:10:14
Schabbach Stefan
Software Für Das Handwerk
Trier, Germany
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Visual FoxPro
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00249971
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>Hello Michael !
>
>Before a few years we are having the same problem !
>But still with a DOS-Based system on a newer machine.
>FoxPro 2.0 dosn´t work on an Pentium Comouter.
>

That's simply not true; we've used FPDOS 2.0 on systems with Pentium (both the P54C Pentium Classic, P55 Pentium MMX, Pentium II and Pentium III processors, as well as the AMD K6 and K6/2 processors. I have had problems with some Cyrix Pentium clones and the Cyrix M2 processor, and with some early AMD K5 processors. I haven't tried the AMD K7, or the various Pentium II and Pentium III Xeon processors, but they should work fine - in the case of the Xeons, it's the same core logic, but a different memory bus, and with the K7, the instruction set support shoudln't break anything; it should work anywhere that the K6/2 processor worked as long as the support chipset understands the K7 processor, which would require one of the newer Super Socket 7 chipsets from Via or ALi (Acer).

The issues that do exist are the correct setup of the protected mode memory managers under Win9x and Win NT for the Extended Edition, regardless of processor, for FPDOS 2.0 - the original Watcom DOS Extender doesn't play well with others without some tweaking of the memory managers. As long as you provide EMS and not XMS or VCPI memory, you should be able to make FPDOS 2.0 work with pentium class processors with the exceptions I've noted above.

>We use FoxPro 2.6 DOS under DOS, Win 95, Win 98 and NT - without any problems.
>
>If you have problems with your projectcode, please send an email to
>FoxPro@schabbach.de
>
>Stefan
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