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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Multi Line BBS
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- References: <104062@bu.edu> <85059@ut-emx.uucp> <OTTO.92Dec10034017@tukki.jyu.fi> <1992Dec18.080158.19384@netcom.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 11:32:12 PST
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- In article <1992Dec18.080158.19384@netcom.com> jscoggin@netcom.com (Jerry Scoggins) writes:
- >Mark Kern writes
- >>What products exist on the Next to make it suitable for a multi-line
- >>dialup BBS? How much would it cost for the modem hardware? Are there
- >>good programming
- >>tools for programming such a BBS? If so, I am very interested in buying
- >>a Next computer.
- >>
- >> Markus
- >
- >As others have pointed out, the operating system is perfect. Create an
- >anonymous account with very limited privs, or a restricted shell for
- >requesting an account and then assign real accounts after you have verified
- >them. A NeXT can have more features than BBS's could ever dream to have.
- >Set up SLIP, feed nntp(news) or smtp(mail), etc...
-
- Any computer is suited for BBS programs, but the NeXT is definitely
- *NOT* suited for arbitrary (unknown) user accounts, it is simply too
- easy to crash the machine.
-
- * No quotas
- * If you fill up the disk and the NeXT runs out of swap it crashes
- hard.
- * No resource limits (NeXT ignores everything but the stack size limit)
- * No process/thread limits
-
- -Matt
-
- >If you find more info, I'd be interested to hear.
- >
- >++jerry(); // jscoggin@netcom.netcom.com
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