Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Apr 30 2022 22:01:18

 Ni>  bo> We used to use a version of ZModem called szmodem, I think "Super Z
 Ni>  bo> Modem". You could while a transfer was going, chat or play tetris or
 Ni>  bo> another two player game. Kind of cool to be able to do that while a
 Ni>  bo> transfer was going, as typically in those days, once you started a
 Ni>  bo> download if you were using DOS, thats it, your computer can't do anyt
 Ni>  bo> else until you're done. 
 Ni> 
 Ni> szmodem sounds familiar..  And I had started to see software that let
 Ni> you do other things while transferring a file, just before the internet
 Ni> started to get popular.
 Ni> 
 Ni> There were a couple of graphical BBS standards I started to see too -
 Ni> RIP and RoboBoard.  I remember calling one or two RoboBoard BBSes in my
 Ni> area, and I remember RoboBoard having a custom, fully graphical BBS
 Ni> client program, and I seem to remember it looking a bit like AOL or
 Ni> Windows, where you could have multiple things going on with the BBS at
 Ni> the same time.  I think it would allow you to be downloading a file
 Ni> while also playing a game and chatting, etc..
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox

I do remember accessing a BBS with RIP graphics once or twice.  It seems if I recall correctly, like a basic web page.  But that point though, I didn't see much reason to develop the BBS this way, and in terms of BBS's to access which had this functionality, it may have been that one only.

Being able to do two things at once though is something I'd still like to see on a BBS, in particular have a download going while composing messages.

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