Subj : Re: Current MS-DOS
To   : Dennisk
From : Jikey
Date : Thu May 21 2020 04:47:57

Hi!
 
In addition to MTCP and Telnet, I was using RLFossil to take incoming calls to
some test DOS BBS setups and it worked great. I never thought I would find
ANYTHING that would provide inbound telnet for DOS BBSing but there it was,
waiting for me to find it :-)
 
I agree with you, running an older version of Linux doesn't feel like anything
special, but DOS certainly does.
 
Looking back at the older versions of some of the BBS software out there, it
seems the prime year for addons/doors was around 1993. While it is difficult to
 license the older stuff these days, it's still out there.
 
Thanks,
Dean.
 
     > -=> Jikey wrote to Moshpit <=-
 
> Ji> On 01 Dec 2019, Moshpit said the following...
 
> Ji> I am, running MTCP and Telnet to dial this BBS and reply to your
> Ji> message :-)
 
> Ji> There is still a lot of interest in MS-DOS/FreeDOS/etc.
 
> I have recently started using DOS more, dusting off my old 486's and
> getting
> them fixed up and working.  All that is left, is to locate the case of
> the XT
> (if I haven't lost it in one of my moves) and use a BBS from that.  I did
> have
> Linux on one of those machines, but I nuked it, as there really isn't
> much
> point in running an old Linux distro just to have.  But DOS, yes, there
> is a
> reason.
 
> I might look at adding ZModem support the mTCP's Telnet.
 
 
> ... Dennis Katsonis
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