-> 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 ).   
   ->   
   -> 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   
   ->   
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   Chuckle... Shame on you! :-)   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Joe Martin   
      
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