Subj : Re: Wildcat! v4.20
To   : Robert Wolfe
From : Joe Martin
Date : Fri Dec 28 2018 15:39:56

-> Going to take my response to this to netmail since it is off topic
-> for the area (so sayeth the moderator, who asked the SL question in
-> the first place <G>).
->
-> On Dec 28, 2018 07:21am, Joe Martin wrote to Robert Wolfe:
->
-> ->> JM> With the holidays and setting up a Novell network for my BBS
-> not ->> to JM> mention hardware changes, I kinda got side-tracked, my
-> ->> appologies. But JM> I'll be doing that shortly.
-> ->>
-> ->> ooooh!  A NOVELL network.  What a "Novell" idea ;)
->
-> JM> Back in the day, I used to be certified on the v2.11 stuff, so I
-> JM> I'd get a version of Novell close to the time period that we used
-> JM> the support board.  So v3.11 was available and I bought a copy of
-> JM> Next I had to get the server installed, hunt down network cards a
-> JM> them to work, find drivers etc.  No small feat, but interesting.
->
-> JM> Perspective now -- Having 800mb of RAM in a Novell server was a b
-> JM> to me (our support board only had 16mb in the server at the time)
-> JM> matching the hard drives to the memory was another gotcha but I'm
-> JM> through all the rough patches.  10mbit on the NICs back in the da
-> JM> pretty fast, not so much today.  I have to wait a little over a
-> second
->  JM> just for ViaMAIL!'s .OVR file to load (1.6mb).
->
-> ->> JM> Now to your question, since I have my hardware/software setup
-> ->> JM> there's no reason not to evolve the SL version as well -- sam
-> ->> codebase JM> after all.
-> ->>
-> ->> Sweet! :)  I have the ability to test that here as well :)
->
-> JM> So what kind of hardware/software config do you have in support o
->
-> JM> Regards,
->
-> JM> Joe Martin
->
-> JM> --- ViaMAIL!/WC v2.00
-> JM>  * Origin: ViaSoft Support BBS - Back online at 303-953-0568  (1:

Chuckle...  Shame on you!   :-)

Regards,

Joe Martin

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