Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 02:42:01

On 21 Apr 2022 at 11:05p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo>  te> "This is my favorite hammer.  I've replaced the head 5 times and
 bo>  te> the handle 10 times."
 bo>  te> 
 bo>  te> By that metric, our IBM 6150 that was running 4.3BSD in 1988 is
 bo>  te> still running.  We've upgraded it, of course, and it's now a VPS
 bo>  te> running OpenBSD 7.0 on x86_64, with detours as an i486DX2-66
 bo>  te> running FreeBSD and a Sun UltraSPARC running NetBSD.
 bo>  te> 
 bo>  te> For that matter, there are installations that ran 7th Edition Unix
 bo>  te> on PDP-11's and upgraded over time to running Linux on ARM64.
 bo> 
 bo> To clarify, by "upgrade", it was not an format/reinstall, or installing
 bo> a new OS over the old one.  It was an actual upgrade, an update of
 bo> Debian from one version to the next.
 bo> 
 bo> Sure, most files were replaced, but it is still a testament to stability.

What's the difference?  Debian now is a completely different OS
than it was 20 years ago.

We have data files and even configuration files from the 4.3BSD
era on the ROMP machines that have made it to the new system
unchanged.

--- 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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