Saber III - Early Pentium/ Pure DOS - will it prog OK?

[g8tzl2004]

The floppy drive on my 386 is going bad so I'm now using a very early Pentium running pure DOS and Win 98.

The laptop is a Thinkpad 380 and works great programming MT1000's , Maxtrac's etc using pure DOS.

I just want to check whether its OK to use the early Pentium to program a Saber III?

Thanks

[GlennD]

When I was assigned to the portable screen room the slow computer was a Pentium P100. This worked mostly for Sabers but it would not transfer the tuning values.

I scrounged a DEC 486-50 from the junk pile and it worked perfectly.

Many will say Pentiums work fine but for me it only somewhat worked. We used ver 6.28 custom, amd ver 7.01.

[Will]

From the Software Pentium Compatibility page:


Saber RVN-4002K Nov-93 Yes
Saber SI RVN-4111A Yes
Systems Saber RVN-4051F Dec-93 Yes

[Tom in D.C.]

Years ago I once ran Saber version 6 on an old Leading Edge 8088 machine. It took forever to run and do what it was
told to do but in the end it worked fine. Right now I have a 60 mHz box which is internally slowed to 25 mHz
running DOS programs and it does fine. Reasonably slow speed, a serial port, and a machine booted from pure
DOS, such as 6.22, always seems to work fine on Sabers running versions 6 or 7 of the RSS.

[HLA]

I use that exact laptop with ME on it and boot to dos with a ME startup disk and that machine does those all day long. P200's are the only ones i've had problems with

[g8tzl2004]

UPDATE: My early Pentium MMX Thinkpad 380XD laptop (dated around 1998) works great using pure DOS.

[mancow]

I use a 1 Ghz Centrino CF-18 Toughbook. I boot to dos from a USB 1 gig thumb drive. It works fine.