VISAR programming - is early Pentium laptop OK?

[g8tzl2004]

I normally use a 486 DOS only laptop to program my Motorola radios and it works great.

However, at the moment , I only have access to a Pentium 233MHz Windows 98 laptop (dated Dec 1998). I have previously used this laptop (Thinkpad 380XD) to program Windows based CPS stuff.

I have searched the archives and seem mention that "Visar Privacy Plus" is Pentium compatible although I've seen no mention of just a plain vanilla Visar.

Given the Batlabs warnings re. only using a 286/386/486 DOS machine , I just wanted to check whether an early Pentium 233MHz laptop should be OK?

I plan on using a DOS bootdisk but I'd also be interested in whether I could program a Visar using a DOS windows?

Thanks

[Grog]

Pure DOS always, I have a 366mhz PII that programs HT1000s just fine (same RSS as conventional visar). I would assume the newer the version of RSS you have helps as well. Get the RSS running, read it and see, can't hurt to try it.

[DJP126]

I normally use a 486 DOS only laptop to program my Motorola radios and it works great.

However, at the moment , I only have access to a Pentium 233MHz Windows 98 laptop (dated Dec 1998). I have previously used this laptop (Thinkpad 380XD) to program Windows based CPS stuff.

I have searched the archives and seem mention that "Visar Privacy Plus" is Pentium compatible although I've seen no mention of just a plain vanilla Visar.

Given the Batlabs warnings re. only using a 286/386/486 DOS machine , I just wanted to check whether an early Pentium 233MHz laptop should be OK?

I plan on using a DOS bootdisk but I'd also be interested in whether I could program a Visar using a DOS windows?

Thanks

Look at the list again. (HT1000 & conventional Visar)

[g8tzl2004]

Thanks - I was looking under "V" for Visar not "H" for HT1000!!

[motorola_otaku]

HT/JT1000/Visar software isn't real processor-speed-sensitive like some of the older stuff. I run it on a PIII 1.3 GHz comp with no problems at all. The standard warnings about using real DOS and a real serial port still apply, though.