Subj : Web access, false BBS ID
To   : Michel Samson
From : Stephen Hurd
Date : Sat Oct 30 2004 08:24 pm

  Re: Web access, false BBS ID
  By: Michel Samson to Andy Ball on Sat Oct 30 2004 05:43:00

 > able to run a `Win 32' OS for ~SSH~/~HTTPS~;  i've lived thru times when
 > there were no other way to get `ZMoDem'/~TelNet~, ~WEB~ access, ~SSH~ or
 > ~HTTPS~ than to launch `Win 32', i mean...  Each time the authors/SysOps
 > discover a new standard they fail to ensure that it doesn't break what i
 > call the "UpGrade Path" and *THAT* is what sounds like "nonsense" to me.

Considering the fact that the worlds first Telnet server and client were
written for UNIX and released as open source, and that the same is true for
ZModem makes it very hard for me to believe that no OS except for Win32 was
capable of this.

If you mean from (Which I assume you do) that's probobly because DOS is dead.

By dead of course, I mean the vendor no longer sells nor supports it - not that
nobody uses it (The last number I saw was 100 million in year 2000)

authors/SysOps have no need to support old platforms unless they specifically
want to.  Computers with 40-column displays for example stopped being supported
on BBSs in the late 80s... except of course for the ones specifically targeting
that group.

It's also quite difficult to find new parts for Edsels.  Why?  Because they
don't make, sell, or "support" them anymore.
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