Hello Maurice,   
      
   23 Nov 17 03:26 at you wrote to me:   
      
    MK> That happened with Maximus about a decade and a half ago.  MBSE   
    MK> started out that way but I am not sure when but seems to me it was   
    MK> well over a decade ago.  Not sure if either is all that well supported   
    MK> today.  I did manage to compile a 64 bit version of MBSE but never ran   
    MK> it beyond just a local test.  I might have been the first to have a   
    MK> pure 64 bit BBS 'working'.   
      
   My being on the MBSE Development Team, I'm a little biased towards MBSE.   
      
   I ran Maximus/2 for many years (part of my Maximus/Squish/BinkleyTerm    
   trifecta) and was quite happy with it.  However, OS/2 has shown its age, even    
   in its new third-party forms, so I made the switch and steep learning curve to    
   MBSE under Slackware.  While I do miss some things about Max/2 and OS/2, the    
   benefits outweigh the negatives for running under Linux.   
      
    MK> Speaking for myself I am more interested in specific apps such as   
    MK> echomail which really doesn't require a traditional BBS to make work.   
    MK> I've been doing this for quite some time now, easily a couple of   
    MK> decades, and haven't needed to port it from it's humble bash scripted   
    MK> state of being.  64 bit according to the tagline below.  Also has been   
    MK> the best at utf-8 support fidonet has ever seen and of course was   
    MK> first to post utf-8 in any Fidonet echoarea.  Nothing anywhere, in any   
    MK> bitness, does it better.  I suspect it will always be that way given   
    MK> the current and past state of affairs in Fidonet.   
      
   You know, I'm currently in the running to get on the FTSC.  My thing is that    
   there's probably not more expansion going to happen technology-wise (good luck    
   getting that much agreement) but we need to document where we've been and    
   hopefully that will help us where we're going.  Even in today's age of instant    
   gratification. I still enjoy my BBS.   
      
   Later,   
   Sean   
      
   ... Life should be measured by its breadth, not its length.   
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20170303   
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