Subj : Mystic BBS v1.12 Alpha 40 released!
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Avatar
Date : Sat Dec 29 2018 23:02:37

on 12/27/18, Nightfox said...
 
 Ni> It seems OS/2 is still somewhat popular with BBS sysops.  OS/2 was a
 Ni> great multi-tasker even for DOS apps back in the day, and I've heard of
 Ni> some BBS sysops who have stuck with it for running a BBS (not
 Ni> necessarily running OS/2 on their main machine).

I recall vmodem being a big thing back then, but there seemed to be so few
people using OS/2, and it was impossible to convince anybody that it was a
decent platform no matter how hard I tried. Hard-headed fuckers.

 Ni> OS/2 is actually still in development, in some form.  Quite some time
 Ni> ago, I heard IBM sold OS/2 to another company, who continued developing
 Ni> it as "eComStation".  More recently, I heard another company now owns it
 Ni> and is developing it as ArcaOS:
 Ni> https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-0-now-available/

Geez. That's almost as bad as people clinging to AmigaOS.

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