Reply to note from "M.W. Poirier" <poirmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sun, 29 May 2011 08:53:08 -0400 (EDT) > Like you I like Windows XP, but every time I raise your > question with someone in my entourage, I am told, if you go > back to Windows XP you will find that some pieces of > hardware in your machine will not work because they depend > on the latest OS. I solve that problem by having old hardware. I bought the Dell I'm typing on now in 2004; it does everything I need and is still going strong, by all appearances. (I've automated daily backups, to an external drive and to the cloud, in case the ghost leaves the machine.) I bought a 64-bit Win 7 machine for my wife last year, but haven't attempted to run XyWrite on it. If my Dell died tomorrow, I'd go with 64-bit Windows on a machine powerful enough to run a virtual DOS environment at an acceptable speed. Since I'd expect to be keeping the new machine for a long time, I'd want it to be capable of running 64-bit Windows apps if and when they become common. What people like us really need, I think, is a DOS-in-the-Cloud that would enable us to run XyWrite and other antiquated software from any machine with an Internet connection. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx