Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Spectre
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Apr 29 2022 17:41:50

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: Spectre to Nightfox on Sat Apr 30 2022 07:46 am

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

 Sp> There was also bi-modem, and another one...sabre hmmm no... nup can't
 Sp> think what it was... they all appeared roughly the same kind of time...
 Sp> about 93/94 at least here anyways.

I rememer bi-modem.  I only used it a couple times in the 90s..  I also remember Puma/MPT, and I thought there were a couple others, but I don't remember offhand now.

In some ways, I wish file transfer protocols like that were still around.  One thing I always liked about running a BBS was adding options for my users.  In the 90s, I liked setting up additional file transfer protocols in my BBS in case a user wanted to use one of them.  These days, it seems there's just support for X/Y/Zmodem in modern BBS software, and I'd heard technically we don't even need those when sending data over an internet connection.

Nightfox
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