"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>P J typed
>> "John Doue" wrote:

>>> I would settle for 6.2 ...

>> Hear, hear! Believe it or not, I am still running DOS 6.2 in a dual
>> boot partition because of an old home automation app I could not find
>> a decent Windows version for.

>Dual boot? Windows runs DOS applications too. Is the other partition
>Windows?

Years ago I wrote a Quickbasic program for Keyboarding Morse code. I
wrote one for receiving as well. I built an external interface for the
keyboard and receiver that used the serial port. It worked great under
DOS (5) but failed under later copies of Windows. For some reason
Windows wouldn't allow my program access to the hardware through the
serial port. I would guess that a home automation program written for
DOS might fail for the same reason depending on how the author
accessed the hardware.