Hello

We are using NT for MRC 600 and running the comos on DOS. It works ok. We
found out that NT is not required for running Comos, win 95 or 98 is ok to
run the Comos.

ammasi

At 11:55 5/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>Can BioRad's COMOS or SOM software, used to operate the BioRad MRC-600
>>confocal, be run in a Windows NT/98 DOS shell? This software requires a DOS
>>environment, but I am not sure if the 'DOS-shell' available in Windows 98
>>and NT-- where DOS is running 'on top of' Windows-- will also support this
>>software (the folks at BioRad were also not sure).
>>Thanks, -Ethan
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Ethan Gahtan, Ph.D.
>>Department of Biology
>>Northeastern University
>>414 Mugar Hall
>>Boston, MA, 02115
>>http://www.dac.neu.edu/biology/gahtan
>
>Hello,
>
>I have succesfully run Comos in Win98 and Win95 with no problem. Its
>running on a Pentium 100/64 megs ram and we have been pleased with
>its performance. I have have not tried it under NT, but I would
>suspect that it would not run as the support for dos in NT is not
>complete.
>
>Best regards,
>kevin
>
>Kevin W. Eliceiri
>Project Director
>Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
>http://www.loci.wisc.edu
>159 Animal Sciences
>1675 Observatory Dr.
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>
>
Ammasi Periasamy, Ph.D.
Director, Keck Center for Cellular Imaging (KCCI)
University of Virginia
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