Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jun 12 2025 16:23:37

  Re: Re: OS/2
  By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jun 12 2025 08:39 am

 > Ah, that's cool.  I used OS/2 a bit but didn't play with the DOS VM stuff
 > that in-depth.  I did try running my original DOS BBS (using RemoteAccess) i
 > OS/2. I had downloaded Ray Gwynn's serial telnet driver for OS/2 and was abl
 > to telnet to my RemoteAccess BBS.  I was only experimenting with that though
 > and still only had that BBS set up for dialup.

I managed Novell networks back then, and all of the tools were DOS-based Curses apps. I could open a ton of DOS windows and not worry about crashing the machine.

We had a modem multiplexer, one of my most shamless uses of technology was running Procomm Plus in 4 different windows and calling 4 BBSes simultaneously.
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