On Tuesday 01 May 2007 03:12, David Fletcher wrote: > This may be a silly question, but I can't find an answer from Google > and I've not yet used Xen. > > My problem is that I want to make up some home made printed circuits > using a very old pen plotter that I've adapted to do the job. > > The CAD software I use, which is called Vutrax, does the job with > Windows 98 but not XP because it needs direct access to the control > registers of the serial port, and I've no longer got a machine running 98. > > If I was to build a new machine with one of the new processors that > can do proper virtualisation, would I be able to give a 98SE VM full > access to the serial port control registers to enable me to run the > plotter? > > Dave F have you tried the program under FC using wine? I got quite a few old windows apps to work with no effort at all. Dave -- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith
