Timeline for Is there a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1?
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| S May 4, 2015 at 20:45 | history | suggested | Andreas Rejbrand | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
it's = it is <> its
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| Jan 3, 2013 at 10:50 | history | edited | Everett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Grammer correction
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| Jun 22, 2012 at 12:59 | comment | added | HaydnWVN | I've seen environments like this time and again... Doing anything with the controller, updating software etc is a Bad Idea! Leave it well alone and deploy your timeclock software on something else. The sheer expense (time&money) of damaging the old controller out weighs any excuses for updating it. Keep it isolated, keep it working for as long as possible. When it dies a natural 'unfixable' death; management will have to fork out, but until it does your comments will probably fall on deaf ears. Still voice your opinions, so you can't be held responsible at all when that happens! :) | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 13:41 | comment | added | Joseph Garvin | To everyone complaining that this isn't an answer: Rich is saving the OP from a potential safety disaster. Installing software that could overwrite the controller's memory or expose it to the public internet could end in somebody's death, so I think it's fair for the answer to be "no, don't do that", even if I'm usually annoyed by this sort of answer on the site. | |
| May 15, 2012 at 11:22 | comment | added | ripper234 | Why was this answer edited by @Community? | |
| May 14, 2012 at 22:13 | comment | added | Scott Chamberlain | @IanBoyd This is a perfect example of a shoe or bottle question I strongly agree that answering the original question as asked is doing the OP a disservice and should help them solving the "real" problem not the asked problem. See this discussion on the SO meta for more discussion. | |
| May 14, 2012 at 20:03 | comment | added | Rich Homolka | @IanBoyd I'm not complaining about the design decisions 20 years ago. I'm complaining about a possible decision today to horribly misuse said technology :) | |
| May 14, 2012 at 6:15 | comment | added | fluffy | @calenti Sometimes the thing that the poster is asking to do is so mind-numbingly terrible that they really need to be discouraged away from doing it. The fact the poster accepted this answer (even if it's answering the question of "should I" rather than "how can I") says a lot. | |
| S May 14, 2012 at 4:44 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I had to re-read that second paragraph 5 times to understand the wording. Some small punctuation to split up the grammar would help.
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| May 13, 2012 at 23:09 | comment | added | calenti | I can't downvote, but this is not a good answer. The poster is asking for assistance, not opinions. | |
| May 13, 2012 at 8:18 | comment | added | Toby Allen | @rob you could wrap the ipad in a bag to withstand dust & fumes! | |
| May 12, 2012 at 16:21 | comment | added | Ian Boyd | i don't know how the accepted answer can be complaining about the design decisions made 20 years ago. You can whine all you like about what the hardware vendor should not have done - that doesn't change the fact that it was done; there's no value in complaining about it. You need to move forward and answer the question. | |
| May 11, 2012 at 23:09 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | Win3.1 may not provide any real-time capabilities, but it also doesn't get in the way of software that provides its own, by installing custom interrupt handlers. That's one of the few things that makes 16-bit software really not work on Win9x and XP, so I'm fairly confident that's what's going on. Upgrading the computer is therefore a non-starter. The real question is why anyone expects the bandsaw controller to continue working if the configuration is changed (adding new software, etc.) | |
| May 11, 2012 at 21:40 | history | edited | Flimzy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
improve grammar
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| May 11, 2012 at 13:13 | vote | accept | Chad Harrison | ||
| May 11, 2012 at 13:13 | comment | added | Chad Harrison | I am compelled to agree. | |
| May 11, 2012 at 9:54 | comment | added | detly | @DanielAndersson - the Wine idea was mine, and it's not so much a solution to "I need a browser on this machine", but an idea for a more robust setup. As in, since the OP can't port the machine to a VM on a better machine, Linux + Wine might be the next most failsafe solution. | |
| May 11, 2012 at 5:43 | comment | added | Daniel Andersson | This this this. The idea to put a browser in such a critical Win 3.1 box in that way is just mind-numbingly bad. I just woke up, so it's certainly the most stupid thing I've heard today :-) . The "Linux and Wine" solution that was mentioned sounds interesting to me if you necessarily have to have a browser on the very same computer that operates the bandsaw (still stupid, but a lot more secure, and it will take care of another problem: the Win 3.1 computer will break sometime. Be ready to upgrade). But for crying out loud: just get another isolated computer or device to do this. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 23:57 | comment | added | Random832 | There's also not a lot of Win3.1 support for realtime. -- except for the fact that any application can seize the CPU for as long as it wants, not giving it to the OS or any other application. This includes the bandsaw controller app. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 22:59 | history | edited | Rich Homolka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 260 characters in body
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| May 10, 2012 at 22:53 | comment | added | Rich Homolka | @rob true enough, but I'd even then recommend some third option over a non-protective OS running an unpatched IE connecting to industrial equipment. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 22:44 | comment | added | rob | Excellent points, but also keep in mind that the current computer might have been built to withstand an industrial environment, whereas a common consumer-grade tablet/iPod might not last long if it hasn't been built to withstand the fumes, dust, etc. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 22:26 | history | answered | Rich Homolka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |