-=> Quoting Mark Hoover to Scott Adams <=-

 SA> MH> And eventually a fatal bug will come up due to the constantly
 SA> MH> changing operating systems and hardware.  At that point sysops
 SA> MH> if they're still around will be forced to either attempt to keep
 SA> MH> around ancient hardware  to support the systems or abandon it as
 SA> MH> a useless piece of trash.
 
 SA>     well theres many like myself who still like ancient dos and
 SA>     hardware :)  It it works why beat it.

 MH> I'm not saying dump the hardware for the sake of dumping it.  I'm just
 MH> saying that at a certain point, it's going to fail and you won't be
 MH> able  to replace it.  What do you do then?

    So far so good.  No failures here.  BBS running 24/7 for the
    last 16 or so years I'd figured it would have failed by now? :)

     I so just get a spare computer and resetup :)
 
 SA> MH> This is exactly what drove me off Irex.  I got tired of the
 SA> MH> config  program wiping out the config all the time.  The Linux
 SA> MH> version not  working on anything newer than RedHat 7.3.
 
 SA>     Yeah.  Linux has issues.  I wish I wasn't so tied to it but
 SA>     oh well.  Hooked now and no alternatives. 

 MH> A simple recompile of the existing code would fix the issue.  But 
 MH> haven't seen one yet....:(

    Yep.

... "That was no jump. We've been hit." - Sheridan
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