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echo: fidonews
to: HENRI DERKSEN
from: BJRN FELTEN
date: 2019-05-30 07:12:00
subject: Fidonet on an 8-bit syste

 MvdV>> You may have forgotten, but Fidonet started on 16 bit systems.
 MvdV>> AFAIK no Fidonet mailer ever ran on an 8 bit system.

 HD> That is not completely sure.

   Of course it isn't.

   If it was, no mailer did ever run on an original IBM PC, but I seem to
recall that it was quite a popular computer in the early Fidonet years (mine
included).

   And I've patched quite a few abandonware FTN programs in my days using the
8-bit DOS program DEBUG.COM to know for sure.

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