Subj : Re: BBS platforms
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Fri Sep 16 2022 12:34 am

On 13 Sep 2022 at 10:46a, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni> For sysops, I'm just curious what platforms & operating system you run
 Ni> your BBS in?

For things like this, I use OpenBSD, either on ARM or x86
(or at home on RISC-V).  Then again, I kind of feel that
the idea of a "BBS" is redundant with the idea of a timesharing
multiuser operating system.  I think I'm in a distinct minority
there, though.

Back in the 90s, when I ran a dialup BBS, I sort of wish that
I had discovered Coherent earlier.  This was a clone of, basically,
7th Edition Unix, written originally for the PDP-11 but ported
around and eventually running on PC-class hardware.  It was often
advertised in the back of magazines like Computer Shopper and the
like, and cost something like $99.  It was a full 32-bit multiuser,
multitasking operating system and as a Unix clone, it was pretty
reasonable until Linux et al came along.  That would have been more
interesting than Spitfire! under DOS.

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