Subj : RE: New BBS Tech
To   : Nightfox
From : ispyhumanfly
Date : Thu Mar 15 2018 14:32:28

$ Nightfox was quoted saying . .
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> > A JSON dropfile would be slick too -- and I've love to see people stop
> > doing socket fd sharing (e.g. door32.sys) as it too much relies on the
> > *door* doing socket I/O which IMO it would be abstracted from.
> 
> Back in the day, FOSSIL drivers were made so that doors could be written
> to a standard interface to communicate with COM ports so they could be
> abstracted away from the technical details of each COM port
> implementation..  Seems funny that now we would want a new abstraction..
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I mean, it makes sense honestly. We've developed static data storage concepts
and unified them across industries since the advent of the FOSSIL driver, drop
files, all of that... 

I'm thinking that with BBS softwares adopting some of these more common
strategies makes the barrier for entry smaller for would-be sysops perhaps
more familiar with modern archtectures. 

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