Hello Dale,

On Sunday July 01 2018 02:06, you wrote to me:

 MVDV>> Yes, there is that. InterMail got stuck on DOS. The users
 MVDV>> wanted an OS/2  version, but Peter was working on a native
 MVDV>> Windows version. Neither got of the ground...

 DS> Hmm -- I was using OS/2 and to the best of my knowledge I was using IM
 DS> then, in combination with SIO.

OS/2 had an excellent DOS emulator. Plus that a fossil driver for POTS and a
driver for ISDN were available. My then main feed, first a my Boss when I was a
point,. later as my Hub when I got my own node number, ran three incarnations
of InterMail under OS/2. Both POTS and ISDN. A very stable system.

 DS> I could fake out IM to "dial" an IP address, but don't recall what the
 DS> appropriate magic incanations were.

I suppose it was possible, but I do not know of anyone in my direct environment
that ever tried. Thye main feed I was talking about abovem left Fidonet before
the advent of Fido over IP.

I have also experimented with Frontdoor and InterMail myself. But then I
already saw that OS/2 was a dead end. What made me drop it was that I could not
make it talk to Novell Personal Netware. That problem was solved later, but
then I had already left OS/2 behind and I am not one to turn back...

 DS> I used OS/2 for years.  It ran windows 3.1 better than native windows
 DS> did.  I also was able to use more than Gate's 640K for DOS programs.

Yes, I remember that...

 DS> Sadly, I left when I had to start sharing Windows application with
 DS> some of my work partners.

I didn't really feel sad leaving OS/2 behind. It was a very good OS, but when
IBM pulled out, it was doomed to become a dead end.  eComStation and ArcaOS are
just rearguard squirmishes. The fact that now, almost two decades into the 3rd
millennium there still is no IPv6 support, is telling...

 MVDV>> I looked in my archives and I see that my IM.EXE is dated
 NVDV>> 06/04/1998. 20 years old.

 DS> Mine is dated 1 April 1996, so a little older than yours.

I have version 2.50. That required a new key. Perhaps you have version 2.29
that still worked with the original 1.xx key?


Cheers, Michiel

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