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- From: marlow@sys.uea.ac.uk
- Subject: Archiboard
- Date: 28 Oct 93 13:37:42 GMT
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- ARCHIBOARD
- Advanced Bulletin Board Software for the Archimedes
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- Introduction
- Archiboard is a complete system for the operating and maintaining of a
- Bulletin Board on the Archimedes. The software is designed to make full use of
- the facilities of the desktop environment for easier operation. Nine users can
- simultaneously log onto Archiboard at any given time. Any of the users can be
- monitored and when appropriate they can either be interrupted or controlled
- directly to guide them around the board; it is also possible to log onto
- any line locally, via an inbuilt terminal emulator.
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- Connectivity
- Archiboard can be configured to accept user logons from two sources:
- those logging on via a serial block driver, or those via a network. Network
- connections are possible both over Econet and EtherNet, or a combination, as
- the Acorn Universal Network standard is followed. Archiboard can be configured
- so that block driver and network connections operate at the same time.
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- Flexibility
- The appearance of Archiboard to the user is fully configurable. The
- operator can redefine all prompts and responses to taste or to suit a language
- other than English. How a user interacts with the board is controlled via a
- flexible script language based around a simplified C language syntax. To aid
- rapid development and to ensure integrity of the online system the scripts are
- compiled before their use.
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- Expandability
- The functionality of Archiboard can be easily extended, by the addition
- of special 'slottasks'. Such slottasks increase the range of operations a user
- can perform while logged on, such extra functionality appears in the script
- language as additional functions.
- Archiboard has also been fully modularised to reduce code duplication
- and to allow incremental updates to separate parts of the software. Such an
- approach makes it possible for nine users to log onto Archiboard using a
- standard 4Mb machine.
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- Availability
- Archiboard is available now in two versions: Basic (without Network
- logon support); and Networked. The price for the Basic system is 45 pounds,
- and the Networked system is 65 pounds. Also available is a demo version of the
- networked system for 15 pounds, refundable off an order for the full system
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- Enquires to: Keith Marlow, 21 Courtenay Close, Chapel Break, Bowthorpe.
- Norwich. NR5 9LB Tele.No. (0603) 745077
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- Demo Version
- A demo version of the Basic version will be available for free at Acorn
- World '93 show on Saturday 2pm at the Norwich Computer Services stand.
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