bbs.synchro.net migrated form Windows 7 to Windows 10 (32-bit) VM
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Digital Man to
All on Wed Mar 18 17:18:44 2026
For several years, bbs.synchro.net has been serviced by a Windows 7 (32-bit) VM, mainly for testing/supporting 16-bit DOS doors under Synchronet.
Windows 7 has not gotten too old now (e.g. not supported by Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, which I'm now using for development and debugging) to be useful to me as a test environment, so I've spun up a Windows 10 (32-bit) VM and will be using that to service bbs.synchro.net going forward.
And if you're curious:
The current release of Synchronet (v3.21e) does still support Windows 7 (and even Vista), but that's unlikely to continue for too many more future releases. Perhaps even, no more releases, depending on the timing of integration of a modern SpiderMonkey (libmozjs) that does not support Windows 7 and earlier.
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digital man (rob)
Synchronet "Real Fact" #122:
Synchronet v2.30a (DOS & OS/2) was released on 5-30-97, 20 months after v2.20b Norco, CA WX: 91.1°F, 27.0% humidity, 11 mph WNW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs