Subj : Re: Small BBS Machines (was: Re: NTVDMx64 issues?)
To   : Mindsurfer
From : tenser
Date : Thu Dec 11 2025 07:44:06

On 10 Dec 2025 at 03:49p, Mindsurfer pondered and said...
 
 Mi>   Re: Re: Small BBS Machines (was: Re: NTVDMx64 issues?)
 Mi>   By: tenser to Shurato on Thu Dec 11 2025 02:39:59
 Mi> 
 Mi>  te> What about a Raspberry Pi and full-system emulation via QEMU? You cou
 Mi>  te> boot DOS, or OS/2, or whatever, and it'd probably be fast enough.
 Mi> 
 Mi> that would be probably good enough, except..
 Mi> raspberry is not very efficient to run DOS or other emulations due to its
 Mi> processor being a non x86 compatible one.

I guess the idea is predicated on not needing stellar performance
for the BBS, which is mostly IO-bound, anyway.

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