Subj : Re: BBS Software Recommendations
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Nov 23 2024 04:06 pm
-=> Nicholas Boel wrote to All <=-
> Not really. I'm running the BBS from Win7, Nick is running from XP. The
BBS
> is on it's own computer. No care about EOL or security for it. What are
> they gonna take, door game reg codes? ;)
NB> I didn't say anything about not being secure, since that can be
NB> controlled by the person operating it. You can definitely lock down XP
NB> or 7, or anything prior to those, to only allow the connections you
NB> want. The only reason people freak out about security issues is because
NB> it's not actually getting security updates any more (which really isn't
NB> a big deal if you have a decent firewall), and because Microsoft says
NB> you shouldn't run it.
NB> I was merely stating one must run old and outdated Windows operating
NB> systems to run said software. Even more so with the phasing out of
NB> 32bit Windows.
I'm not 100% sure, as I don't use Windows and have only the info I read
(some of it on BBSes), but.... isn't there something called
"NTVDM<something>" that allows modern Windows (64-bit Win 10/11) to run
old 16-bit (DOS) software? I'm fairly certain many Sysops are doing
that, and running any/all software they want to.
