Subj : Re: Windows & Unix?
To   : Ryan Fantus
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Feb 24 2023 18:50:45

  Re: Re: Windows & Unix?
  By: Ryan Fantus to Nightfox on Fri Feb 24 2023 06:24 pm

 Ni>> I had an idea yesterday though..  I thought about setting up a VM
 Ni>> running OS/2 or maybe ArcaOS and running my old DOS-based
 Ni>> RemoteAccess BBS as a game server in it with some DOS door games,

 RF> Yeah, I actually did this ... sort of. I had a win7 32 bit VM running in a
 RF> completely firewalled environment. I actually used Synchronet which worked
 RF> well as a door server, and passing users off to the doors was completely
 RF> transparent to users - they launched a door on my linux BBS and were

I had my BBS running in a Windows 7 VM for a while (in Linux), but I didn't want to have to run the Windows VM anymore.  The other day, I was thinknig of using OS/2 or ArcaOS because I think their system requirements are lighter than Windows.

Nightfox

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