Subj : Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : xbit
Date : Thu Nov 06 2025 07:35 am

  Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to xbit on Thu Nov 06 2025 07:16 am

 xb>> Always wanted to build an OS/2 BBS back in the day.
 PF> On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS
 PF> cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for DOS in
 PF> a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2
 PF> binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the BBS was
 PF> running and I could barely tell it was there.

So awesome. Sounds like a fun retro project... I have a working 486 w/ win95. Perhaps i could switch the HDD an os/2 one :) that said, it also sounds like a lot of work as it would be a new world for me and not sure support is what it once was. https://x-bit.org/info/retro486/
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