Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 03:46:53

On 20 Apr 2022 at 07:48p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo> I saw a thread on Reddit from someone who had a 21 year old Debian
 bo> install.  He installed it 21 years ago, and just kept updating it to the
 bo> next version of Debian, and hardware updates.  A 21 year old
 bo> installation that still ran fine.

"This is my favorite hammer.  I've replaced the head 5 times and
the handle 10 times."

By that metric, our IBM 6150 that was running 4.3BSD in 1988 is
still running.  We've upgraded it, of course, and it's now a VPS
running OpenBSD 7.0 on x86_64, with detours as an i486DX2-66
running FreeBSD and a Sun UltraSPARC running NetBSD.

For that matter, there are installations that ran 7th Edition Unix
on PDP-11's and upgraded over time to running Linux on ARM64.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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