Subj : Re: 3.19b not compatible with Windows XP?
To   : Digital Man
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Jul 09 2022 08:56:00

Subject: Re: 3.19b not compatible with Windows XP?
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-=> Digital Man wrote to cadeon <=-

 > Is it time to drop XP support? Am I being silly going this far back in time?
 DM> I would recommend Windows 7 myself, at minimum. If it's a simple fix to
 DM> still support Windows XP, then I will do it, but I certainly don't
 DM> encourage anyone to still run XP.

There is a version called TinyXP that strips out most everything from the 
full version, including all of the apps (including IE) and theoretically 
would have a much smaller attack surface than plain Windows. It's also tiny 
and runs in a small VM nicely - when I ran it, it idled at 118 MB of RAM and 
ran my BBS in a 512 MB VM nicely.

I don't know if it's still a valid option.


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