Subj : Re: BBS Interfaces
To   : Nighthawk
From : tenser
Date : Sat Nov 02 2024 10:48:30

On 30 Oct 2024 at 05:07p, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>  ji> i'm paraphrasing a bit here because i can't remember the actual comma
 Ni>  ji> but for example, there was no "press m for messages" stuff, i made yo
 Ni>  ji> messages" and run "./read" or if you wanted to download you had to "c
 Ni>  ji> files" and "ls"
 Ni> 
 Ni>  ji> my teenager mind thought this was awesome.  in hindsight it probably
 Ni>  ji> scared off a ton of people.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I've thought about making something for my BBS like that (what
 Ni> Synchronet calls a 'command shell').  I haven't yet though, as there's
 Ni> probably little benefit in it other than me perhaps finding it to be an
 Ni> amusing project to work on. I think there might actually already be a
 Ni> MS-DOS style command shell for Synchronet though - I seem to rememebr
 Ni> seeing one before.

I think stuff like that is pretty cool, but it begs the
question: why not just build a BBS out of a Unix machine?
Raspberry Pi's are so cheap as to be practically disposable,
and you can run Linux or BSD on them and give out accounts.
Perhaps build a messaging app or something on to of it, but
otherwise, you've got everything a BBS provides and more.

There's precedence for this: Grex and M-Net were this, SDF
is now (M-Net is also moving to the SDF museum!).

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