Our dept has an old 32bit Dell Latitude D810 which has seen better days. I'm sure a lot of companies have the same setup in which there is legacy equipment that has not been upgraded and as such, you use the old 32bit laptop running Windows XP to do the work.
So has anyone explored connecting to 32bit software platforms such as early Rockwell Factory Talk or a communication network like DH+ where you'd use a PCMIA card slot with 64bit computers running a 32bit Virtual Machine? What is typical here?
Honestly, I have no experience with VM's. We had a machine manufacturer's programmer in house not long ago and he casually mentioned using VM's to run different software platforms so that he could connect to all the different equipment. We had an interesting conversation where he explained that if you use the wrong VM to connect to an PV+, the font does weird stuff like gets smaller or larger (which happened to us).
How does everyone accomplish connecting to the 32bit stuff? Is there a more modern way of accomplishing this?
Thx for your input!
So has anyone explored connecting to 32bit software platforms such as early Rockwell Factory Talk or a communication network like DH+ where you'd use a PCMIA card slot with 64bit computers running a 32bit Virtual Machine? What is typical here?
Honestly, I have no experience with VM's. We had a machine manufacturer's programmer in house not long ago and he casually mentioned using VM's to run different software platforms so that he could connect to all the different equipment. We had an interesting conversation where he explained that if you use the wrong VM to connect to an PV+, the font does weird stuff like gets smaller or larger (which happened to us).
How does everyone accomplish connecting to the 32bit stuff? Is there a more modern way of accomplishing this?
Thx for your input!