Subj : exactly the same except totally different
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Thu Nov 23 2017 13:51:30

Hello Maurice,

23 Nov 17 03:26 at you wrote to me:

 MK> That happened with Maximus about a decade and a half ago.  MBSE
 MK> started out that way but I am not sure when but seems to me it was
 MK> well over a decade ago.  Not sure if either is all that well supported
 MK> today.  I did manage to compile a 64 bit version of MBSE but never ran
 MK> it beyond just a local test.  I might have been the first to have a
 MK> pure 64 bit BBS 'working'.

My being on the MBSE Development Team, I'm a little biased towards MBSE.

I ran Maximus/2 for many years (part of my Maximus/Squish/BinkleyTerm 
trifecta) and was quite happy with it.  However, OS/2 has shown its age, even 
in its new third-party forms, so I made the switch and steep learning curve to 
MBSE under Slackware.  While I do miss some things about Max/2 and OS/2, the 
benefits outweigh the negatives for running under Linux.

 MK> Speaking for myself I am more interested in specific apps such as
 MK> echomail which really doesn't require a traditional BBS to make work.
 MK> I've been doing this for quite some time now, easily a couple of
 MK> decades, and haven't needed to port it from it's humble bash scripted
 MK> state of being.  64 bit according to the tagline below.  Also has been
 MK> the best at utf-8 support fidonet has ever seen and of course was
 MK> first to post utf-8 in any Fidonet echoarea.  Nothing anywhere, in any
 MK> bitness, does it better.  I suspect it will always be that way given
 MK> the current and past state of affairs in Fidonet.

You know, I'm currently in the running to get on the FTSC.  My thing is that 
there's probably not more expansion going to happen technology-wise (good luck 
getting that much agreement) but we need to document where we've been and 
hopefully that will help us where we're going.  Even in today's age of instant 
gratification. I still enjoy my BBS.

Later,
Sean

.... Life should be measured by its breadth, not its length.
--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20170303
 * Origin: Outpost BBS * Limestone, TN, USA (1:18/200)

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