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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and BBS software
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.165959.11691@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec30.211530.28662@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <C0Asys.5C0@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:59:59 GMT
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- In <C0Asys.5C0@panix.com> isc@panix.com (David Koosis) writes:
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- >On a related note:
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- >hasn't anyone come up with a (ms) windows-based windowing
- >protocol yet? so that we could run bbs's with windowing
- >interfaces?
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- >I've seen America Online's nifty GEOS front-end, as well
- >as some X-windows front ends, but nothing for windows.
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- >do we have to do it ourselves?
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- Probably, and I would expect it to be DOG SLOW running over anything
- less than a V.32bis connection. Of course, X has this problem, too.
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