MSGID: 1:261/1466.0 5de60ac0
 -=> On 12-03-19  02:38,  August Abolins <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about the woes and whims of win <=-

 DS> My computer is running Win7, with a virtual box to run WinXP
 DS> which I use primarily for reading the echos..

 AA> Why can't you migrate the echo activity to Win7?

 AA> For example, I've been experimenting with several fine 
 AA> point programs since last year:

 AA> https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/points/

The way that I read the echos is to download a QWK packet from Maximus.
I then read that packet using BlueWave in my WinXP virtual box.  Pretty
much every thing else I want to do with respect to my BBS does run just
fine in Win7, perhaps with some help from a DOS emulator called vDOS.
Unfortunately, although BlueWave can run under vDOS, it does not act
quite the same in a way that is critical to me.

I have never used point software, even more than two decades ago when I
was a point before being given a node number.

 DS> So, I am
 DS> sticking with Win7 in spite of the fact that MS is dropping
 DS> support for it.

 AA> Just because "support" (the constant excuses for security 
 AA> updates) is stopping from MS, doesn't mean that Win7 will 
 AA> stop working. Win7/64/32 is a smooth performer.

Understand.  And except for that one single thing about BlueWave I have
no problems with continuing to use Win7 for everything else.

 AA> I like the ready-to-go feature in Win10 that allows
 AA> controlling other screens and redirecting video to 
 AA> different monitors connected in the network, for example.

I don't see any use of that for me at this time.

 AA> If I had my druthers, and if I didn't have to rely on at 
 AA> least two key exclusive MS products, I'd move to a linux 
 AA> distro in a heartbeat.

And I kept with OS2 for a long time until I had to switch because of
programs I needed for my work where everyone else was on Windows.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 02:20:45, 03 Dec 2019
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