[Coco] serial cable tricks for drivewire?

[Aaron Wolfe]

DW4 should work on any operating system that can run a Java JRE of
version 1.5 or higher.  I don't know if anyone has tried Win2000, but
I know it works fine on Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7 and 8.  I'd say odds
are in favor of it working, but can't be sure.


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
> Another quick question -- will DW4 run on Windows 2000?  I've got an old
> copy here, don't want to install it if someone knows it wouldn't work...
>
>
> -Robert
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] serial cable tricks for drivewire?
>
>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Robert Hermanek
>> <rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Lots of good ideas here and in other emails, I'll be experimenting when I
>>> have time, probably starting with some twisted pairs and seeing if that
>>> alone can improve things. I actually have a PC with 10 serial ports in
>>> it,
>>> so I'm inclined to go serial all the way. I've heard of the serial over
>>> ethernet but have never really understood it, I might check into it if
>>> all
>>> other avenues fail.
>>>
>>> I haven't had a chance to look at the new DW4 server, great news that it
>>> supports simultaneous connections. Here's another question: I noticed
>>> right away with DW3 that both the "physical" device # command (i.e. DRIVE
>>> #2) and the "logical" drive # (i.e. DRIVE 10) both allowed any value on
>>> the
>>> coco side of things. So I set up my server app to support 256 DRIVE #'s
>>> (so
>>> 256 DSK compilation files) each of which contained 256 traditional DSK
>>> images at the expected offsets. If you do the math on 256 "devices" X 256
>>> DSK's per device, each DSK containing 160k or so of data, you get to
>>> about
>>> 10+ gigs of storage available to any coco accessing the server. So that
>>> registered on my scale as "pretty cool." Does DW4 server also support any
>>> number of disks in this fashion?
>>>
>>
>> Yep
>>
>>> -Robert
>>>
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