-> This is a part of the reason why Fido is going to s*it in a
-> handbasket. Literally everyone has to degrade their resources to run
-> the junk.
How does it affect YOU or your system if someone else is running a node
on a C=128 or similar?  As long as THEIR users are happy, and they get
mail out that meets FTSC requirements, WHY would YOU have to degrade
your resources??
-> That, or cough up an arm, leg, and lugnut to pay for the
-> rare good stuff.  You know how you are against paying for
-> stuff.....which means one of two things:
-> 1.  You run pirate-ware, or
-> 2.  You run with degraded resources using the affordable stuff.
Excuse me??  I run current Dos-based BBS and Mailer software,
registered, and it didn't cost that much.  It WOULD have cost a LOT more
to go to new, buggy, Windows-based software.  But mine is in NO way
obsolete, or even close.
-> Like you've aptly pointed out in the past, an AT/286 is ample to run
-> most Fidoware.  So anyone who dedicates a 386 and up, is wasting a
-> chunk of their valuable resources, thanks to the ancient and
-> anachronistic Fido technology.
I have 5x86-133 for the BBS, which allows me to toss mail in a
reasonably short time, AND to run a dialin node, 1 or 2 local nodes, AND
XTree and similar programs all at the same time, under Dos and DV.  The
ONLY time my system is down is when the power fails, or I take it down.
I even had Windows 3.1 running on it before I got my K5-100 system about
6 months ago, and could run WinFax and such while the BBS had a user
on-line, WHILE using Dos and DV.
--- Platinum Xpress/386/Wildcat! v1.3
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