My 8+ year-old PC (Windows 98, 500MHz Pentium III, 128Mb RAM, 10GB hard drive) is starting to show signs of its age and I would like to replace it with a more modern system. My most frequent use of my computer is to run several MS-DOS satellite-related programs, including Rob Matson's "Skymap" and "Iridflar", Mike McCants' "quicksat", "highfly", "xf7", etc, and other such programs like "TLEMOP", "ORBITEL", and several C- programs of my own. I have heard that the latest releases of Windoze no longer support such MS-DOS programs; there isn't even an MS-DOS prompt available. If that is true, short of keeping my old machine limping along well into its old age, how can one run MS-DOS programs in the newer Windows environments? (Or, for that matter, could such software somehow be run on a Mac?) Please reply off-list to: "light@argoscomp.com" and "edlight@juno.com" Thanks much in advance for any useful suggestions and advice. Clear and dark skies! Ed Light Lakewood, NJ, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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