Subj : Re: i'm fixing a hole where the rain comes in
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri Oct 19 2018 17:28:26

-=> Quoting Sean Dennis to Nancy Backus on 15-Oct-2018 10:36 <=-

 NB>> I'd vote for not moving to the Raspberry Pi... Dave and I would miss
 NB>> the Scrabble for sure....  :)   You'd need to have two iterations of
 NB>> the board up, one for the games and the other for messages.... ;)

 SD> Not only that but there's a lot of stuff to do in moving a BBS from
 SD> one system to another.  It's more complicated under Linux than under
 SD> DOS-Windows-OS/2 but it can be done.  The main reason is for physical
 SD> portability; a little RPi takes up a lot less room and power than my
 SD> server does but you do make some serious trade-offs for doing that.

Understood.... Shawn's been doing the same sort of thing... at one
point, he considered moving it all to the Pi, but there were too many
tradeoffs to make it feasible.... so Ezycom's still up, along with
Tiny's slice of pi...  ;)

ttyl        neb

.... Having given up in my search for reality, I seek now a good fantasy.

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