On 2016-01-04 7:46 AM, Jean Parrot -> Holger Granholm wrote:


 JP>      Ask Alan if we should not rename this echo to W-10 ?

'Alan' has no connection to the WINDOWS Fido echo other than a sometime
reader/poster.

A long time ago, when Windows 98 was released, the question was raised
about re-naming WIN95. It was pointed out by folks who were more involved
with the FIDO network than I was (or am) that re-naming an echo area was
problematic, as it would be applied inconsistently by the various hosts and
would cause problems and confusion routing the messages.

The result has been that WIN95 kept that name - though it seems wildly out
of place 21 years later.

At one time, there was a WINDOWS2000 echo and a WIN32 echo among others....

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