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Not to rag on New Mexico State, but I'm totally going to rag on New Mexico State -- how hard can it possibly be to "maintain" something like this? Given that th
by gcanyon 3y ago
Not to rag on New Mexico State, but I'm totally going to rag on New Mexico State -- how hard can it possibly be to "maintain" something like this? Given that the software is from the '90s, it can't possibly total more than a few gigabytes? And the bandwidth surely can't be huge. Finally, what "maintenance" is even required?
NMS surely has a large connection to the internet, so what this amounts to is one lonely machine sitting in a rack in the far back corner of a server room. Or maybe they don't have a server room -- then give the responsibility to a half dozen incoming CS freshmen.
And if that's too much trouble, hand it off to literally any other university. Someone has this, and it should have to fall to the informal role the Internet Archive is playing here.
That said, I don't know NMSU's circumstance. The whole place could be going away for all I know.
- nunez 3y agoThis sounds more like a response to legal action than a technical inability to continue.
- gcanyon 3y agoYep, could be.
- II2II 3y agoIt could simply be a matter of having someone interested in monitoring the server. If they can't find anyone who is interested in OS/2, which is a strong possibility these days, they probably didn't have anyone volunteer to do so.