Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Apr 27 2022 09:48:14

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Tue Apr 26 2022 06:48 am

 PF> As a BBS guy, comms under Windows was bad for a long time, and that kept
 PF> me in OS/2 and DOS. It wasn't until PCs got more horsepower that Windows
 PF> became viable.

Yeah, for a while it seemed like Windows wasn't the best for some things.

I messed with OS/2 a bit around 1996-1997 or so but never seriously used it.  I didn't raelize until later how popular OS/2 was for BBSing.  I was running my original BBS (with RemoteAccess) in DOS at first, and after a while I started to run it as a 2-node setup in DesqView for DOS, even though I only had one phone line for the BBS.  The 2-node setup with DesqView allowed me (as the sysop) to log on locally even when another user was logged in via the phone line.

 PF> From 1997 until 2001 or so, I ran a DOS BBS in a window on my Windows95 
 PF> desktop, and it ran OK for a single node with not a lot of traffic. By
 PF> then, I was on a Pentium 166 and later Pentium Pro 200 system with 32+
 PF> megabytes of RAM, pretty good for the time. It was still bad at serial
 PF> comms, but fast enough hardware to compensate.

Yeah, I also ended up running my original BBS in Windows later, from around 1998 to 2000 before I took it down.

Nightfox
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