Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Tracker1
Date : Tue Apr 25 2023 18:05:16

 PF> My othernet hub, back in the day, ran 10 DOS nodes running Remote
 PF> Access. He needed another node for a file server, some DOS-level
 PF> networking that wasn't LANTastic, and a room full of beige desktops
 PF> running on baker's racks with cabling everywhere. It was a pretty
 PF> amazing sight to see back then.

I remember setting up a couple of computers using coax ethernet (10-base-T iirc) and not knowing anything at the time... using a copy of NT4 Server from a zip disk without a lot of the extras.  We had a computer, but not an extra HD for one of the nodes, so managed to get everything needed for basic boot on a floppy. Using a parallel zip drive for main storage on one of the nodes.  It was interresting learning about TCP/IP configuration in DOS at the time (late 1996).

Coax because the cards, cables etc were dirt cheap and didn't have a lot of money back then (working two jobs) until I managed to get a paying job doing helpdesk support and shifted web development. Was definitely a relatively fun time in my life.

As to what we ran, it was Renegade (of course), remember having to use a hex editor on the .OVR file every single release to get many of the display mods working. By contrast, SynchroNet is way, way more flexible out of the box, even if the JS environment is a bit dated and very different than where CommonJS and now EcmaScript Modules landed.
  
   
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