Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Apr 29 2022 09:20:58

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: boraxman to Nightfox on Fri Apr 29 2022 09:50 pm

 bo> We used to use a version of ZModem called szmodem, I think "Super Z
 bo> Modem". You could while a transfer was going, chat or play tetris or
 bo> another two player game. Kind of cool to be able to do that while a
 bo> transfer was going, as typically in those days, once you started a
 bo> download if you were using DOS, thats it, your computer can't do anything
 bo> else until you're done. 

szmodem sounds familiar..  And I had started to see software that let you do other things while transferring a file, just before the internet started to get popular.

There were a couple of graphical BBS standards I started to see too - RIP and RoboBoard.  I remember calling one or two RoboBoard BBSes in my area, and I remember RoboBoard having a custom, fully graphical BBS client program, and I seem to remember it looking a bit like AOL or Windows, where you could have multiple things going on with the BBS at the same time.  I think it would allow you to be downloading a file while also playing a game and chatting, etc..

Nightfox
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