Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Gamgee
From : Atreyu
Date : Wed Nov 02 2022 13:35:20

On 02 Nov 22  11:29:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

G> Modern Linux is surprisingly easy to use right out of the box.  Even a 
G> bash skillset is not really a requirement for most.  If you're not 
G> locked in to using specific Windows software for home, you likely could 
G> switch over without too much hassle.

My main computer at home is a Falcon trading station with six monitors. I
inherited this from a client who retired from finance. I use it whenever I 
work from home. I'm not really locked into Windows-specific stuff but all my
work revolves around the cult that is MS-Office. Outlook, Excel, Teams...  I
can't just replace those with alternatives. At least not easily. The Excel 
work for one job involves a freaking mess of macros and VBA.

G> Your BBS stuff is another matter, for sure.  Are you running all of that 
G> on bare-metal DOS hardware, or on a 32-bit Windows machine?  I think 
G> it's uber-cool that you run DOS stuff, actually.  

Professor Hud doesn't think so. ;)

Yes my BBS is all in 32-bit Windows XP on Vmware EXSI. Windows being nothing 
more than a glorified multitasker for all the DOS stuff.

It made sense to move to Vmware since I manage that stuff at work and home for
other things. There was no real need to run bare-metal anymore so the beatup
IBM R51 that gave many good years of uptime was retired after 15~20+ years.

The board must run on Windows XP and nothing higher because I'm 100% convinced
there is a bug in NTVDM in higher versions where Microsoft did something that
would crash DOS sessions with bizarre problems. I gave up and left it on XP.

Atreyu

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