[HN Gopher] The MajorBBS Emulation Project
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The MajorBBS Emulation Project
Author : hggh
Score : 4 points
Date : 2024-02-24 18:04 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| h2odragon wrote:
| _dusty rant about the moral and practical superiority of source
| available RBBS_
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| Truly there was only a narrow, tiny slice where "MajorBBS" made
| any sense; as far as I recall. Even at the time the people
| running real systems with it would likely have been better served
| by RBBS, at the low end, or some unix box at higher user counts.
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| is the target here Companies that just wanted to buy something
| that worked and then implemented internal processes on top of it
| after it did? I can see that. The folks who ran MajorBBS that I
| knew, were mostly happy with it, and mostly were "we don't want
| to think about the software, we're running the board" type users.
| It made sense to them.
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