Subj : Re: fsxNet feedback
To   : N1uro
From : Vk3jed
Date : Thu May 20 2021 08:03 am

-=> On 05-19-21 16:57, N1uro wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 N1> I'll guess the original NOS or possibly MFNOS. JNOS might have been a
 N1> bit too much for floppies. MFNOS and Phil's NOS were always somewhat
 N1> compact in size.

Yeah, no idea now. :)

 N1> Barry always insisted that MFNOS would never run on linux - he pooped
 N1> himself when I got it working :) Not only that, it works better on
 N1> linux than on native DOS! I still run a copy for grins as a
 N1> hysterical/historical monument sort of thing.

Nice! :)

 N1> It would have been great for the paycheck however! Building things that
 N1> people can use typically pays large sums of money.

True, but money doesn't make up for sanity. :)

 N1> Quality control folk help a lot!.. especially if the reports are done
 N1> in a manner that's understandable. I have some that volunteer info
 N1> however their english is quite broken and sometimes their information
 N1> gets lost in the translations. For the most part my stuff is about
 N1> where it can go.

Well, if you can understand "Strine", I can help! :D

 N1> Sometimes such things are appreciated, sometimes it's more headaches
 N1> than aspirin is on hand <G> I appreciate feedback and if I find that
 N1> some things make sense I'll include them. G4APL has been great in
 N1> suggesting things. I've been trying to tap KE6I to be on my dev team as
 N1> she's a game coder for junglevision but she never replies to my
 N1> queries.

Haha, with me, you never know what I'll attempt.  I link ideas that most people
don't associate, and that's the source of my out of the box thinking.  Many
years ago, after Skip (WB6YMH) chatted with me about the Echolink protocol, and
I noticed the similarities with RTP and the Speak Freely protocol that IRLP
uses, EchoIRLP was conceived. ;)  And I knew Speak Freely, because years before
IRLP, I ran it over dialup modems to talk to friends.  

Dave Cameron even had to prune the unused codecs from the IRLP software,
because I wrote some custom decode entries to access them! :D  Let's say that
2400bps LPC didn't sound great over radio. ;)

But it was fun tinkering. :D

There's a couple of things I've done that I don't tell many about, because
while they work and are well behaved, they're not officially sanctioned. :)

While I'm not a coder, I am a systems integrator and will attempt to make
anything talk to anything, if I can get away with it. ;)


.... Remember, you don't have to be smart to be a Sysop.
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