Subj : WIndows 10 32 bit
To   : Vincent Coen
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Fri Mar 10 2023 15:50:22

  Re: WIndows 10 32 bit
  By: Vincent Coen to Nick Andre on Fri Mar 10 2023 02:23 pm

 > 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 w
 > 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 
 > 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 Lin
 > firewall tools BUT still used.
 > 
 > It helps of course that main processes such as BBS, Apache etc is run in a V
 > most of which are read-only processes. These environments are updated often 
 > 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 th
 > 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
 > 

All good points but I have 3rd party firewalls and a cisco router.  It's a
non-issue for me.  Suspect it is for Andre as well.

  xxcarol
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