Subj : Re: Contemplations?
To : Janis Kracht
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Fri Sep 28 2018 10:58 am
Hello Janis,
>When my OS/2 system 'died', it was the HD controller that bought it. That was
> the night I went to Linux.. I still remember that pain, darn it... after a
> while I realized how similar OS/2 and Linux were at least on some levels.
After DOS and Desqview. I tried OS/2 for a time. Up until I seen some pending
development limitations pending. Then switched over to Slackware and MBSE.
Eventually changing over to Ubuntu and BBBS.
>I'd been reading about bbbs, had a few how-to's I'd collected for it...so that
> night when that controller died, I used Ron's system to grab an archive of
> BBBS/Li, and at least got the BBS running. I used BinkD with BBBS until I
>could figure out the mailer :) Yeah, that night my system died and I switched
> to Linux/bbbs was an 'all-nighter' :)
Done the 'all-nighter' thing a number of times. Including setting up BBBS for
the first time. I guess I am one of those types that once I start a task I
don't like stopping till it's running and I am satisfied.
