Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Vorlon
Date : Sat Apr 29 2023 09:37:35

Hi Poindexter,

 On Friday April 28 2023, Poindexter Fortran said to Vorlon:

 Vo>> Yep. Better multitasking! We now take that for granted!

 PF> I'll say. I ran the BBS under DOS for several years, then ran DOS apps
 PF> as a window under OS/2, then ran OS/2 binaries. Running OS/2 native, I
 PF> couldn't tell there was any processing going on, and this was on a
 PF> lowly 486.

I went along the same path, but went for OS/2 biniraries first if there was
one... Maximus, Squish, Binkley was the mix.

 PF> I ditched OS/2 after Windows95 came out, and remember trying to get it
 PF> to run a DOS BBS comfortably, and needing idle TSRs, rebooting
 PF> occasionally, and generally not having a good time of it. Callers were
 PF> on the decline, so it had less of an impact.

I never ran a BBS on windows, due to the above reasons.. #-)

 PF> By the time 2000 rolled around, Intel PCs had enough horsepower to make
 PF> up for Windows 9x shortcomings and Windows 2000 was released.

Windows 2000, was the first stable verion of windows.. It could even run
os/2 console progs... #-)

 PF> But, by that time, I was down to a caller or two a day.

Yes the BBS's around here started to see less and less callers from the late
1990's. I partnerd with another sysop, and we setup a small ISP. When I left
there was 22 incomeing lines for general callers, and two dedicated to a
couple of clients...

I got out just in time, as a year latter ADSL at a huge 128/256K was
starting up....





\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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