Subj : RIP 1.54 and telnet
To   : Nightfox
From : Oli
Date : Fri Dec 16 2022 11:28:56

Nightfox wrote (2022-12-15):

 N> It seems Avatar wasn't very common.

Depends. In parts of Europe RA was one of the most common BBS programs.

 N> When I ran my original BBS in the
 N> 90s, the software I used (RemoteAccess) supported Avatar as one of the
 N> possible formats, so I saved my menu files in Avatar in addition to ANSI
 N> and plain text.  One time I tried calling my BBS (or perhaps another BBS
 N> that had Avatar) with an Avatar-capable terminal program (probably
 N> Telemate), and it seemed somewhat noticeably faster than ANSI.

I also remember that it was a bit faster. I'm not sure if it makes a big difference with ISDN and nowadays latency is much more crucial than bandwidth.


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