Re: SIO and Virtualization
  By: Sean Dennis to Jason Hud on Mon Apr 23 2007 12:33 pm

 > Bob Juge, one of the long time OS/2 BBS stalwarts was doing just that and hi
 > virtual PC blew up, taking the entire system with it.  Unfortunately, he los
 > everything.

yeah, that depends a bit on what you're using though.
parallels is very nice, and vmware is comparable.

always best to backup ALL THE TIME!, so the perverbial 'lost everything in a 
system crash' can be avoided (ref:bbsmates).

 > I've got about 10 free boxes here that will run a BBS just fine. :P  The Del
 > have now is dying, so I'm getting another smaller Dell (933mhz/P3) to replac
 > it.  For free. :)


yeah, doesnt take much to run a bbs. :D
funny thing is some people have some hardcore systems and they run their bbs 
like crap.

i just bought a computer for my first time this month, a 475 dollar compaq.
that's pretty damn cheap for a 3ghz box with 1 gig of ram and a 160 gig hd.

sure was better than putting another box together.
only downside is it came with vista home ;-[

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