-=> Mark Hofmann wrote to Nick Andre <=-

 MH> Before Christmas, I decided to put time back into the system to get
 MH> everything running in a new fashion. VMware... One of my original
 MH> growing issues was my old P-133 system running OS/2 that ran all the
 MH> nodes for the BBS. A combination of imaging the BBS drives and creating
 MH> Virtual Machines with their data, I can now in effect run 16-bit apps
 MH> under a 64-bit OS.  No more hardware restrictions for my BBS
 MH> configuration, and I don't need an additional server/workstation for
 MH> the BBS.

Virtual machines are amazing for running BBSes, so much easier and more 
manageable than some random ancient P133 in a closet. 

I run my system on a Windows VM with DOSBOX for most doors - I find it 
more reliable than the NTVDM stuff, but of course it's not appropriate
for everything due to the lack of file locking etc.

Sampsa



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