[ RadSafe ] Backwards compatability for radiological software run on newe...

[JPreisig at aol.com]

Radsafe,
 
     How cool is this email post, and hiding out in the  world of DOS.  
Perhaps you can put this bootdisk stuff onto a CD  disk.
 
    Or perhaps, if you have some courage, jump into the  world of Windows 
with both feet, get the radsafety source code, buy a Fortran or  other 
compiler (sold by Intel???) and compile and load the software.
 
    Whatever works for you...
 
    Joe Preisig
 
PS there's some sort of reactor operator job at Oak Ridge (ORNL)...
 
 
In a message dated 10/15/2014 11:48:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
cfrbug at gmail.com writes:

For old  DOS programs, you can also get DOS bootdisk images from 
bootdisk.com,
and  then boot your machine straight into DOS (harder to do now that  floppy
drives are rare). I used this technique to run some old DOS-based  radio
programming software at my previous job (Motorola and Kenwood). I  kept an
older laptop with a 3.5 floppy for just this purpose. Haven't had  to do it
in many years though. I got out of the radio programming tasks in  2005.

On a newer laptop I guess could set up a multi-boot menu and have  the DOS
image as one choice.

Bruce  Bugg
cfrbug at gmail.com
(404)507-2237 [(404)507-2CFR]


On Mon,  Oct 6, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Scott Davidson <bsdnuke at gmail.com>  wrote:

> Group, what experience is there for "backwards"  compatability for "old" 
rad
> software like CAP88-PC, Microshield,  RESRAD/RESRAD-Build and the newer
> Windows operating systems.  I  currentl run the above on an emulator 
running
> Windows XP on a  Macbook.  I am considering a Surface-3 tablet which is
> running  Windows 8.1 I think.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Scott  Davidson
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