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[Giles Pollock]

>if the hardware's flaky, you could probably set this up to run under dosemu 
on
>linux.   configure inetd or whatever so that telnetting to a certain port
>spawned a new copy the bbs.  even an old pentium (with lots of RAM and a fast
>modern disk) should be able to run several sessions of dosemu + bbs + door
>games.

>err, actually, it looks like you're running some kind of Windows BBS rather
>than an MS-DOS BBS.  wouldn't run under dosemu.  probably not under wine
>either.

There is actually a version of the BBS software im using (Synchronet) that is 
made to run on *nix/bsd... just i dont know how to set it up, and i cant 
really be bothered :D

for those wanting to check it out, http://www.synchro.net

>i didn't know they made any windows BBS, last time i had anything to do with
>BBS, it was all MS-DOS + Deskview, or OS/2 running DOS-boxes.

I think there were a few towards the end of the BBS days, just i never used 
any...

>i think at the end, before i switched to a uucp feed from APANA, i was 
running
>OS/2 & binkleyterm & maximus bbs & other stuff.  i switched to linux in 92 or
>93 because uucp worked properly in unix but didn't work properly in dos,
>windows, or os/2 (none of them had any real concept of multiple users, 
whether
>simultaneous or not)....linux also let me run a long cable off the serial 
port
>and have a wyse-50 terminal in the lounge room (two computers for the price 
of
>one!! :)
>
>"nostalgia".

Thats the word i was after :D


>can't say i miss those days at all.  the 'net is what i always wanted 
bulletin
>boards (& Fidonet etc) to be.  even uucp mail & news was a vast improvement
>over fido-style echoes and local message boards.
>
>
>craig
>
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