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Re: XyWin on XP



Jordan - Thanks for this and other insights.  I looked at the readme file in the PCI132 program and decided to heed this clause: "...if the above is too confusing, perhaps you probably don't need whatever PCI32 does."   I heed it because  I'm a primitive.  For me, dos boot evokes images of U-boats rather than computers.  I began with XY3 when my newspaper used Atex and a tech was always handy to help  -- even letting me bring in my PC to install XY and whatever that old DOS-based communication program was.  Later, I evolved on my own to XYWIN (or is regressed the right verb?).  I know it's said to be be buggy, but it's worked well for me from Win 95 through98 and now XP.

    My XY3 disks are long gone, and a couple of months ago I mailed 3's manificent manuals to a member of this list who needed them (until joining the list, I hadn't even heard of 4).  But I have new hope.  A recent post from Robert Holmgren tells me that the XYWIN manual appeared only months after 4's and contains essentially the same material.

    So I will, belatedly, start some serious homework.

 

                  Bob White

    

In a message dated 11/20/2005 10:57:51 PM Central America Standard T, jr_fox@xxxxxxxx writes:

There is a free diagnostic utility program called PCI,
which is available for a few platforms, but you
probably want the DOS version.  (For best results, run
it from a DOS boot.)  It queries all the installed
hardware components and reports back on what they are:
mfr., version # and so forth.  You can capture this
output to a file, and print it out for reference.
Probably an invaluable item for every computer user's
toolkit.  The PCI distros always include a database
that is essential for good, up-to-date results.  The
Zip archive you get may not have the latest database,
which gets updated regularly.  There is an associated
website for this.  If you have any trouble locating
PCI for download, let me know and I'll send it to you.
(In early Dec., when I get back from a trip.)  I
believe this is not the only free utility in this
category, but it is the one I use and am familiar
with.
           Jordan