Dos program on New Computers

[jeeps]

We have recently upgraded several of our computers to 450 and 500 celeron processors from a well know computer company. We have a dos based program that I can run on a p133 and p200. When I try to run this on the new computers, I get a runtime error 200. The computer company and the software company both state that the processors are too fast to run this program.

Is that possible? Never have heard that but guess with computers it should not surprise me. If anyone can verify this and/or provide some way around this, we would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

[snarkie]

Although this is possible, it usually occurs when you go from an older much slower processor to a newer much faster one. I should think going from 200 to 450MHZ on a Pentium or Celeron processor is not that great a leap, and the program should run. However the timing will no doubt be off. Where this is most often noticed, is when someone has some really old programs designed for a 286 machine, and then they try to run them on a Pentium 200. It just blows your mind how much faster the program runs. I have called the Battle of Britain which is a good example. It runs so fast on the Pentium, that it is unusable.

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[davidgsmith]

Hi There,
If you look around on some of the abandonware sites, there are programs for slowing down your processor to run older applications.
Good Luck,
Dave http://www.geocities.com/asdf85016/smoke.gif

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[eyesee]

I have run into this before albeit once or twice & I concur.
Ive had to slow systems down to a bare crawl before to make things like this work
The manufacturers are exactly right, the processor is too fast to run the software.
If you want to go that far disable the on board caches. I wouldnt though.
Its a Pentium so you cant slow the boot speed down in the BIOS
Afraid it aint gonna work!!
Anyone thats writing for DOS needs to do a reality check

[mrbreaker]

Here's the dope.
http://www.intel.co.jp/support/processors/pentiumII/run200.htm

mrbreaker