Subj : exactly the same except totally different
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Nov 23 2017 18:55:50

Hey Sean!

 SD> I'm a little biased towards MBSE

So I've noticed.

 SD> OS/2 has shown its age

It just barely made it into the 21st century before IBM sold it, according to 
Wikipedia 15 years ago.  The last version I tried was more than 20 years ago in 
1996-ish.  There was problems booting it on a 2G drive on a 486 at the time due 
to bios issues so that machine went pure Linux.

 SD> While I do miss some things about Max/2 and OS/2

I think that might have been the ultimate BBS.

 SD> the benefits outweigh the negatives for running under Linux.

Agreed.  However I haven't actually ran a BBS since making the switch other 
than a brief flirt with Maximus via dosemu.  Due to dosemu issues as well as 
the lack of callers it never stood much of a chance.

 SD> we need to document where we've been and hopefully that will help
 SD> us where we're going

pktheader.  It seems to me that the 2+ version never did get properly 
documented despite it being the defacto standard since roughly 2000-ish.  As 
for where Fidonet is going it seems to have been stuck for a number of decades 
now.

Life is good,
Maurice

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