Subj : Re: MMTerm?
To   : WILLIAM MCBRINE
From : LAIRD KELLY
Date : Mon Apr 16 2001 12:11 pm

-=> WILLIAM MCBRINE wrote to JIM HANOIAN <=-

 JH> Yes, Wildcat has never supported Blue Wave.  Primary on a WildCat
 JH> BBS is Silver Xpress (Hector owns SX and WildCat, so is it any
 JH> big surpise?) and secondary is QWK.

 WM> I don't think we can really say that SX is primary on Wildcat, when the
 WM> OPX door for WINS is incomplete and defective. (I dunno about older

The OPX door *was* much better when WildCat! was a Mustang product
(along with Off-Line Xpress and QModem) 8-)

 WM> versions of Wildcat.) QWK, on the other hand, had an important place in
 WM> Wildcat's history -- the QWK interface, originally a standalone
 WM> third-party door known as TomCat, was one of the best ever. And QWK
 WM> networking made great inroads on Wildcat long before Fido did.

And let's not forget that MSI *bought* SLiMeR and used it as the basis
for OLX (QModem Pro BTW had OLX built-in and the sales literature
specifically mentioned this fact)

....

 JH> SX products are most consistent because the doors and the readers are
 JH> all owned/produced by Hector.

 WM> Oddly enough, despite what should be his unifying control, I don't find
 WM> them consistent at all. This could be due to his multiple personality
 WM> disorder.

No comment >;->

Laird

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