Subj : Re: mbse 1.0.7.9
To   : Vince Coen
From : Deon George
Date : Mon Sep 24 2018 07:36 am

On 09/23/18, Vince Coen said the following...
VC> i see you are using a pi, what are you doing for hard drives as i could
VC> not see
VC> how to remove the usage of an sd card and i have zero intention of doing
VC> so.

I have a Pi v3+ and it has a 64GB SD card (Samsung EVO Plus) - I was reading
in (I think) the PI echo and discovered a website that did performance on SD
cards - and this one got the best review for performance.

Since the Pi has 4 USB ports, I also have a San Disk Cruzer - but I use it
for a local daily backup (using rdiff-backup).

If the SD card starts to fill up, I'll probably put on a USB/Sata external
caddy, with a SSD (I have a spare 128GB) - which I'm hoping is more than
enough for what I want to use it for... And if things start to get full, I've
got the NAS that I'll offload stuff to with an automount.

VC> i would like to bay and set one up for some Cobol->java development
VC> system which is free on that platform but major issues with mass storage.
VC> i have no intention of waiting around will it thinks that going back to
VC> the 70's and floppies.

For BBSing, the PI is great - this one has 2 docker containers (MBSE +
Mystic) and I compile MBSE (and other BBS code) and build the docker
containers on it.

I have another Pi - which is a 3 (not a 3+) - and its running qemu and my BBS
from 1995 (ezycom). I've been setting that up over the last week, and while
it is also slow (by todays standards) - everything works (and it's probably
faster than what it was in 1995!) (I did try getting Ezycom running as a DOS
virtual machine on my Intel server - it was fast, but most things didnt work
- the Runtime Error 200. I did have the pascal TSR loaded, and that fixed
somethings, but many others didnt work - like the ezymail tosser.)

...deon

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