Subj : Re: Small BBS Machines (was: Re: NTVDMx64 issues?)
To   : tenser
From : Shurato
Date : Thu Dec 11 2025 01:03:00


 te> On 10 Dec 2025 at 01:41p, Shurato pondered and said...

 te> Sh> * In a message originally to Shurato, tenser said:

 te> Sh> Could I boot Win 10 32 bit?  That might be an option...  I'd need 4
 te> Sh> cores and 4 threads and 4GB of RAM and at least 128GB Gen 3 NvME SSD
 te> for
 te> Sh> it...  My BBS is Win32, and I run DOS doors.  The Linux port never
 te> Sh> worked.

 te> Yeah, those specs sound like about what you could get out of a 8 or
 te> 16G Pi5.

That would need to be including being inside a VM.  I just order a SFF PC
that should work pretty well, though have more power consumption.  It
wouldn't have the issue of being ARM based, though.

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