Subj : Re: BBS platforms
To   : tenser
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Sep 15 2022 08:19:24

  Re: Re: BBS platforms
  By: tenser to Nightfox on Fri Sep 16 2022 12:34 am

 te> For things like this, I use OpenBSD, either on ARM or x86
 te> (or at home on RISC-V). Then again, I kind of feel that
 te> the idea of a "BBS" is redundant with the idea of a timesharing
 te> multiuser operating system. I think I'm in a distinct minority
 te> there, though.

I suppose I see what you mean.  But when I think of a BBS though, I tend to think of it as still something on its own, with the ANSI-based menus (or possibly RIP or other graphics protocol), message areas, files for download, door games, etc..  All that could be done with a multiuser OS, but a BBS package is specifically designed to provide an easy way for users to do all that, I suppose.

 te> Back in the 90s, when I ran a dialup BBS, I sort of wish that
 te> I had discovered Coherent earlier. This was a clone of, basically,
 te> 7th Edition Unix, written originally for the PDP-11 but ported
 te> around and eventually running on PC-class hardware. It was often

I'd heard of Coherent.  I remember my dad trying it out on his PC for a bit.

Nightfox
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