autotap- dos or windows?

[Dark Knight]

i read in an earlier post that there was a problem with the autotap in windows mode but it never said what? so what is everybody using dos or windows? whichis better obdII or autotap? is anyone here running obdII?

[Brian Dieckman]

IN GENERAL: DOS can accept and respond to serial and parallel data much faster than most of the windows environments. (Win2K built on NT is pretty fast)

I've never used the software of which you speak, but if there is any kind of back/forth communication (or even one-way) I would suggest using whatever DOS option there might be.

P.S. don't run DOS on windows! That kinda defeats the whole purpose... reboot in DOS mode (if it's an option) otherwise, you'll have to install it.

-Brian

[Seal]

DOS runs windows [img]smile.gif[/img]

every comp comes with dos, but they are setup to work with windows [img]smile.gif[/img] you can run DOS while running windows by doing this: (ok, what OS you have now? 98? ME? XP?)

[knowledgefreak]

ehh

not every version of windows is a shell

[DominusEtDeusNatus]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by seal:
DOS runs windows [img]smile.gif[/img]

every comp comes with dos, but they are setup to work with windows [img]smile.gif[/img] you can run DOS while running windows by doing this: (ok, what OS you have now? 98? ME? XP?)<hr></blockquote>

win2k has no dos and you can't run dos on it.

[strobhen]

Win NT, Win 2k, and Win XP are all NT based and have no dos whatsoever.

I would not trust windows 95/98/ME in anything "mission critical", and I would consider autotap just that. Last thing I need is to have it crash going down the track on a busy night an me lose an opportunity to get some nfo.

So, I would use a WinNT based as my first choice (more flexible if I want to do other things w/ the computer in my car), DOS as my second, and I wouldn't even consider Win 9x.

[Seal]

what is the thing that runs the comp when there is no windows? [img]smile.gif[/img] and command prompt does look like DOS [img]tongue.gif[/img] i think it just has a fancy name...

[Magnus]

THis is not DOS vs WINDOWS.. this is ADVANCED TECH.


I use both. I use windows autotap to check DTC's so I can get the full description. I use DOS autotap to log.

www.autotap.com for updates.

I'm also moving this to general tech as its a pretty basic question.

[Dark Knight]

ok now that the great debate on windows is over can anyone answer my original questions?

what is wrong with running autotap on windows?

which is better obdII or autotap?

is anyone running obdII?