[geeks] old Windows/DOS games

[Kris Kirby]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
> I'm sure everyone remembers "Kali", the program that let you play
> IPX/SPX-network-play-enabled games over the Internet...

is it still alive?

> When I went to work for Texas.Net in '96, they told me "yeah, we ran the
> very first original Kali server here, and its still up and running".
>
> I thought "Wow, it must be a huge piece of hardware".
>
> Nope, it was a Sun 4/110 sitting in a back corner, hooked up to a 19"
> mono monitor, with (I think) 8 or 16M of RAM, running SunOS 4.1.x. 8-)
>
> When we retired the machine, we had a "everyone bring your 1M old SIMMs
> to work" day, filled it full of RAM, and played with it for a bit before
> we gave it to one of the tech support guys (if I remember correctly).

should have copied off the server software. 8-)

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