[ On 2011-03-25 at 23:19:18, Jay Dickinson wrote to All ]

 JD> I have heard that the faster machines pentium 3 and faster the old
 JD> software like doors have problems running under say Win XP.

The only major problem with "fast" computers is due to a bug in
some Pascal programs which will happen under any OS, but is easily patched:
http://pcmicro.com/elebbs/faq/rte200.html

And if we fast forward another decade or so, 64bit OSs cannot run DOS
programs without a full emulator.  If you want to run your BBS on your
latest Windows 7 64bit six core god box, VirtualBox or VMWare are your
friends.

 JD> Win XP also has problematic issues. No built in support for Novell.
 JD> So does anyone have any ideas on how I can get my ancient hardware on
 JD> telnet/internet?

Is there any reason you want to use ancient hardware and operating systems?
 Unless you specifically want to get your old board running exactly as it
was, get your hands on a copy of W2K/XP and be done with it.


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