Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : tenser
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Apr 21 2022 23:05:47

 te> "This is my favorite hammer.  I've replaced the head 5 times and
 te> the handle 10 times."
 te> 
 te> By that metric, our IBM 6150 that was running 4.3BSD in 1988 is
 te> still running.  We've upgraded it, of course, and it's now a VPS
 te> running OpenBSD 7.0 on x86_64, with detours as an i486DX2-66
 te> running FreeBSD and a Sun UltraSPARC running NetBSD.
 te> 
 te> For that matter, there are installations that ran 7th Edition Unix
 te> on PDP-11's and upgraded over time to running Linux on ARM64.
 te> 
 te> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)

To clarify, by "upgrade", it was not an format/reinstall, or installing a new OS over the old one.  It was an actual upgrade, an update of Debian from one version to the next.

Sure, most files were replaced, but it is still a testament to stability.

--- 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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