NA> I never did get to play around with eCS or the new Arc-os (I think thats
NA> what
NA> its called?). It might be nice to fire it up in a virtual machine just to
NA> mess around with it.

My classic WWIV nodes have run on eCS 2.2 for quite some time now.  I have
yet to experiment with ArcaOS, but wouldn't mind experiementing with it.  

Even though networking support has gotten much better in eCS (using Samba),
it still has issues.  If you have a mapped drive from eCS to a Windows
machine - and reboot the Windows machine, eCS will crash.  

Would love to test ArcaOS one of these days to see if I can get better
stability with networking using it.

NA> But I have a strong feeling that my current setup will remain on 32-bit
NA> Windows "for life". I may use a new modern OS for day to
day stuff, but
NA> the BBS and especially the Fido stuff will always be on 32-bit Windows.

Nothing wrong with that.  Hell, I'm still running a 16-bit DOS BBS which is
why the nodes stay on eCS.  Doesn't make any difference to me since it is a
VM and can still run on the most beefy hardware out on the market.

- Mark

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