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Using their test program on a variety of PCs, the software vendor found that the problem was related to the Intel hyper-threading technology (my client has standardised on a version of the IBM ThinkCentre M50 which includes a single 3GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with HT technology). Identifying this allowed them to construct a test program which polled for input, timing out every few seconds and would reliably hang an NTVDM at a seemingly random time, but always within an hour. Occasionally, the input does not timeout and return control to the calling program – it seems that this is the root cause of the NTVDM hang.
Normal actions for troubleshooting MS-DOS applications in Windows XP were not helping to resolve the issue, but the software vendor managed to narrow the issue down to FoxPro waiting for input. Only the application hangs – it is possible to terminate the NTVDM process and carry on working as normally. Windows XP did have service pack 2 applied, but the issue also occurs on service pack 1 PCs (I didn’t try the RTM version). Every now and then, the application will hang – seemingly randomly. My client has an MS-DOS (FoxPro 2.6a database) application running within an NTVDM on Windows XP. I’ve been working on an intriguing (and frustrating) issue for a few weeks now and a couple of days back we finally resolved the issue. Please be warned that the information here may be out of date.
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I don't routinely update old blog posts as they are only intended to represent a view at a particular point in time. Product type OS Vendor Microsoft Release date 1981 Minimum CPU Intel 8088 4.77MHz Minimum RAM 32KB Minimum free disk space 160KB User interface GUI Platform DOS Download count 1737 (102 for release) Downloads Download name Wanted: Eagle 1600 MS-DOS 1.25 with hard disk diag disk. Please see the documentation included with each for specifics. Those that are compatible with the IBM PC (Such as the Columbia Data Products OEM) can be mounted and booted in an emulator such as MESS or PCE. WinImage can not handle the file system on most DOS 1.x disks. Most of these images need to be written with ImageDisk, or some other DOS based disk writer. Some require special disk formats or drive hardware, such as 8" floppy drives. Others may boot on an IBM PC, but certain devices or tools may not operate. Important: Many of these OEM versions will only run on the specific computers they were designed for. All of the versions here are believed to be based off of MS-DOS 1.25, even if the vendor called it something else. Some vendors labeled their versions of MS-DOS with different names and version numbers. MS-DOS 1.25, the equivalent of PC-DOS 1.10, was the first version licensed to OEMs beyond IBM or Seattle Computer Products.
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No pipes, redirection, or device drivers were supported. The command interpreter supported the following commands: PC-DOS 1.0 worked with 160KB floppies and did not support folders (all files had to be in the root). DOS 1.x was very limited in what it could do.