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Running DOS On A Windows Machine
ChadTower:
You could give FreeDOS a shot. I have used it and have not seen it fail to run a DOS program. It also adds a lot of things like TCP/IP, FTP, telnet, DHCP. There are a bunch of other packages you can add, too, linux style.
knave:
You don't even need a partition, DOS can run from a floppy (if you still have a drive) I've used bootable USB drives in the past as well.
Cenobyte:
Also be prepared that you might NOT be able to read your Windows hard drive, if it's formatted as a NTFS partition, since MS-DOS can't read that.
ChadTower:
I love that FreeDOS is updateable via the net and cmdline RPM style. That is just awesome. DOS with an embedded virus scanner, torrent client, and webserver.. :notworthy:
Ed_McCarron:
Also, bear in mind, if the PLC communicates via a comm port -- DosBOX might or might not play nice. Best bet is to boot to a dos disk -- but newer hardware may not fly under dos.
I used to keep an old Toshiba T1000 around for DOS work on oddball controllers. Don't see much need for them anymore -- customers have phased most of the older stuff out.