Subj : WIndows 10 32 bit
To : Vincent Coen
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Fri Mar 10 2023 03:50 pm
Re: WIndows 10 32 bit
By: Vincent Coen to Nick Andre on Fri Mar 10 2023 02:23 pm
> Hello Nick!
>
> Thursday March 09 2023 19:00, you wrote to me:
>
> > On 09 Mar 23 21:37:10, Vincent Coen said the following to Dean
> > Galloway:
>
> VC>> It has not had support and includes security updates, for many,
> VC>> many years upgrade it to v10 (you will not find if using old kit
> VC>> that it will install need very up to date h/w).
>
> > While I would agree with this... I decided to keep the BBS instance on
> > XP because after many frustrating nights with 7, 8, 8.1 and 10
> > randomly hanging NTVDM it became more hassle than its worth.
>
> > I strongly believe Microsoft changed something in NTVDM after XP that
> > made running anything DOS-BBS-related extremely unreliable here.
>
> Since XP and NT for that matter MS have been removing support for DOS in all
> where from v7 it is all gone so yes that is more than likely BUT I have not
> tried or for that matter looked into what, when and where has happened after
> XP.
>
> I therefore have no idea of the issues found when using later versions of
> Windoz - I gave up with MS and Dos many years ago and switched to OS/2 and w
> all know what happened with that after 1999 or there about.
> I decided I had no choice but to use Linux or other *nix and if needed wine
> which has/had it's own problems.
>
> My basic point was that any one using XP,NT etc would have no support
> regarding
> security aspects of Windows from MS.
>
> How ever that said a strong firewall would help even if only using the one
> installed in good quality routers (that does NOT include the one's supplied
> the ISP - which I have found to be some what poor).
> In my case I have been using Asus - at least in more recent years to handle
> primary firewall and port forwarding etc with a more minor role taken by Lin
> firewall tools BUT still used.
>
> It helps of course that main processes such as BBS, Apache etc is run in a V
> most of which are read-only processes. These environments are updated often
> any updates so that are kept fresh - not perfect but...
>
> Needless to say the Linux environment is run at High security so that root
> privileges and access, are minimised.
>
> I would not want to trust old Window versions on a system that has incoming
> access via the internet without some very strong other tools that will cover
> the problems/issues.
>
> i.e., I run a mainframe via a concentrator that is a micro based computer th
> vets all incoming connections that must have a registered MAC code, CPU
> model and serial no., user name and password among other checks before
> allowing
> a user access any further. It seems to do the job so far.
>
> Vincent
>
All good points but I have 3rd party firewalls and a cisco router. It's a
non-issue for me. Suspect it is for Andre as well.
