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-=> Nicholas Boel wrote to All <=-

 > Not really.  I'm running the BBS from Win7, Nick is running from XP.  The
BBS
 > is on it's own computer.  No care about EOL or security for it.   What are
 > they gonna take, door game reg codes?  ;)

 NB> I didn't say anything about not being secure, since that can be
 NB> controlled by the person operating it. You can definitely lock down XP
 NB> or 7, or anything prior to those, to only allow the connections you
 NB> want. The only reason people freak out about security issues is because
 NB> it's not actually getting security updates any more (which really isn't
 NB> a big deal if you have a decent firewall), and because Microsoft says
 NB> you shouldn't run it.

 NB> I was merely stating one must run old and outdated Windows operating
 NB> systems to run said software. Even more so with the phasing out of
 NB> 32bit Windows.

I'm not 100% sure, as I don't use Windows and have only the info I read 
(some of it on BBSes), but.... isn't there something called 
"NTVDM" that allows modern Windows (64-bit Win 10/11) to run 
old 16-bit (DOS) software?  I'm fairly certain many Sysops are doing 
that, and running any/all software they want to.



... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
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