home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Path: sparky!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!moose.uvm.edu!cblaise
- From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
- Subject: Re: TBBS versus RA/Netware
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.204634.26090@uvm.edu>
- Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
- References: <1992Nov21.191516.4859@eff.org>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:46:34 GMT
- Lines: 32
-
- From article <1992Nov21.191516.4859@eff.org>, by adamg@eff.org (Adam Gaffin):
- > In article <BxxnyG.C6n@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >>adamg@eff.org (Adam Gaffin) writes:
- >>Does it still have the limitation of supporting 64000 or less messages?
- >>That's very limited in itself. This is 1992 and machines need to support
- >>in excess of 100,000 messages on-line at any given time..
- >
- > NO. Once again, NO. The only limit on message count now is the size of
- > your memory. Why do you keep asking this?
-
- Yes, the limit on number of messages in TBBS is 65536 messages.
- The record for this value is still a word length value.
-
- >>And you pay the price with the internal limitations
- >
- > Uncle! You're absolutely right. You can not do every single thing with
- > TBBS that you might do with your Unix setup. On the other hand, I am
- > running a two-line BBS on an 8 MHz AT with 640K of RAM. For what my
- > company is using the BBS for, that is more than adequate, and we didn't
- > have to spend several hundred/thousand dollars more just so somebody can
- > have fun with perl scripts.
-
- Yes! We have several systems running on 286es, and when I
- was upgrading them this summer, I was amazed at how effortlessly they
- ran TBBS. I've been used to running it on a 386 and better, but like
- you said, it runs well even on an AT. Heck, even the 4 mhZ XT that
- one node had this summer was at least bearable...certainly better than
- other BBSes I've seen run under DESQview.
-
- TTYL
- Chris
-
-