Subj : Fossils
To   : Scott Dudley
From : Mike Luther
Date : Mon Dec 21 2009 10:55 am

Wow!

 SD> Mvan,

 ML> On the other hand, the Maximus author, Scott Dudley, 
 ML> disappared off the face of the earth (I don't blame 
 ML> him). There's now only a half-arsed intermittently 
 ML> commited ragtag user group left for Maximus.

 SD> Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated! I do 
 SD> admit, though, that I am surprised that people are 
 SD> still using something that I started 20 years ago. 
 SD> (Frankly, I'm also surprised that it still works.)

 SD> Thanks for the vote of confidence!

 SD> Scott

 SD> PS: If you ever have trouble finding a home for one of 
 SD> those shitloads of money, I'm sure that I could give 
 SD> you some pointers... :-)

A blast from the past that still works with the blaster!  Still running it on 
DOS-VDM's in OS/2 where necessary and OS/2 native absolutely stable yet Scott.  
I've even got it working for test only in WIN-XP SP3 latest in mobile drive 
tray operations just for research with COM/IP there.

Part of the reason is the even the old FidoNet standard stuff with BINK/MAX and 
even OS/2 special telecomm bridging stuff *CAN* be used to patch together all 
the way from evem POTS phone service even to RF data linked stuff.  Not only 
from VHF radio data operations, but even HF world-wide really emergency mission 
critical data likes.  Even encrypted if need be!  All over the whole world by 
radio!

At one point after a years' back hurricane trounce in rural Texas that hit the 
1:117/3000 Fido remote telecomm site, parts of the geography back toward 
Beaumont and so on didn't even have POTS phone service for as long as two 
weeks!  If we had to, we could have handled actual EOS emergency traffic via 
BINK/MAX and Fido, together with even file transfer that could have, though 
very slowly, be done that way!

Part of which was with what you contributed..  Woof! Woof!


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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