Hi! Kurt,

In a message to All you wrote:

 KW> If Windows95 is still on topic here :) I'm tempted to load up
 KW> Widows95 in my BBS VM. I'm worried about the end of Windows XP and 
 KW> the end of the 16 bit NTVDM. I've been running a stripped down XP
 KW> image in a VM but am tempted to try a "real" DOS and Windows95.

Which VM?  This Fidonet Win98SE config lives & works in a Ubuntu 10.04
VirtualBox PC (vBox), and has done so since late February.  I run another
Win98SE vBox that looks after our LAN's email, collecting & sending
from several accounts, and consolidating the inbound, and, providing a
backup by duplicating inbound between physical PCs.  There's another linux
distro running near 24/7 in another vBox but that's a different story.

 KW> Has anyone figured out a way to mitigate security issues with an OS
 KW> that Microsoft hasn't patched in several years?

I haven't worried about this aspect as the only ports/daemons open to the
world are not 'well known' in the TCP/IP community (24554[binkP] &
60119[NNTP]), and no one has bothered to hack them yet.

There are a few gotchas installing & running Win9x machines in vBox-en.
 Let me know if can help.

Cheers,
Paul.

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