Soldato
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I'm not relly sure how to make this but that is why I asking this
My sister have some business but want to make some kind of LAN (there already one but with more newer equipment) but want to make another with a pretty old machine they use as cashregister that use some old crap DOS facturing program the technician there got and old ISA (old and discontined architecture)network card to put in this old 386 machine (since a newer one wont' work since they now are PCI). Im not sure but it seems he already installed it but he doesn't know well how to configure the protocols, Me either, but want some help from me since I used machines from the DOS days but In my DOS days was very rare the people who had a modem much less a network unless was a big company but without getting out of the topic the thing is this is it posible to network this old computer to a more newer laptop with windows xp? is the onemy sister had I don' t well how since in Windows XP like most people here knows Real DOS was ditched and making this old DOS program recognizes the networks under xp enviromnet that why I'm asking here I was thinking some program like VMware or something (the one I used to run Windows 3.0 & 3.1 on a Linux machine) but Im not sure but If remember well had options to networking and could help to install real DOS but I don't know really if I really could need real DOS and other problem Im not sure how make the network card from the newer laptop with xp run in with A DOS and recognize the network since a lot of now days hardware doesn't even have drivers for windows 98 much less for DOS
So any help appreciated
Thanks
My sister have some business but want to make some kind of LAN (there already one but with more newer equipment) but want to make another with a pretty old machine they use as cashregister that use some old crap DOS facturing program the technician there got and old ISA (old and discontined architecture)network card to put in this old 386 machine (since a newer one wont' work since they now are PCI). Im not sure but it seems he already installed it but he doesn't know well how to configure the protocols, Me either, but want some help from me since I used machines from the DOS days but In my DOS days was very rare the people who had a modem much less a network unless was a big company but without getting out of the topic the thing is this is it posible to network this old computer to a more newer laptop with windows xp? is the onemy sister had I don' t well how since in Windows XP like most people here knows Real DOS was ditched and making this old DOS program recognizes the networks under xp enviromnet that why I'm asking here I was thinking some program like VMware or something (the one I used to run Windows 3.0 & 3.1 on a Linux machine) but Im not sure but If remember well had options to networking and could help to install real DOS but I don't know really if I really could need real DOS and other problem Im not sure how make the network card from the newer laptop with xp run in with A DOS and recognize the network since a lot of now days hardware doesn't even have drivers for windows 98 much less for DOS
So any help appreciated
Thanks