Subj : WIndows 10 32 bit
To   : Nick Andre
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Fri Mar 10 2023 14:23:54

Hello Nick!

Thursday March 09 2023 19:00, you wrote to me:

 > On 09 Mar 23  21:37:10, Vincent Coen said the following to Dean
 > Galloway:

 VC>> It has not had support and includes security updates, for many,
 VC>> many years upgrade it to v10 (you will not find if using old kit
 VC>> that it will install need very up to date h/w).

 > While I would agree with this... I decided to keep the BBS instance on
 > XP because after many frustrating nights with 7, 8, 8.1 and 10
 > randomly hanging NTVDM it became more hassle than its worth.

 > I strongly believe Microsoft changed something in NTVDM after XP that
 > made running anything DOS-BBS-related extremely unreliable here.

Since XP and NT for that matter MS have been removing support for DOS in all,
where from v7 it is all gone so yes that is more than likely BUT I have not
tried or for that matter looked into what, when and where has happened after
XP.

I therefore have no idea of the issues found when using later versions of
Windoz - I gave up with MS and Dos many years ago and switched to OS/2 and we
all know what happened with that after 1999 or there about.
I decided I had no choice but to use Linux or other *nix and if needed wine
which has/had it's own problems.

My basic point was that any one using XP,NT etc would have no support 
regarding
security aspects of Windows from MS.

How ever that said a strong firewall would help even if only using the one
installed in good quality routers (that does NOT include the one's supplied by
the ISP - which I have found to be some what poor).
In my case I have been using Asus - at least in more recent years to handle
primary firewall and port forwarding etc with a more minor role taken by Linux
firewall tools BUT still used.

It helps of course that main processes such as BBS, Apache etc is run in a VM
most of which are read-only processes. These environments are updated often by
any updates so that are kept fresh - not perfect but...

Needless to say the Linux environment is run at High security so that root
privileges and access, are minimised.

I would not want to trust old Window versions on a system that has incoming
access via the internet without some very strong other tools that will cover
the problems/issues.

i.e., I run a mainframe via a concentrator that is a micro based computer that
vets all incoming connections that must have a registered MAC code, CPU
model and serial no., user name and password among other checks before 
allowing
a user access any further. It seems to do the job so far.

Vincent

--- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.8.3/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
 * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)

.