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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and BBS software
- Message-ID: <wiuwwB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 10:36:07 CST
- References: <1993Jan4.165729.11541@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
-
- > In <1993Jan1.120522.28801@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writ
- >
- >
- > >OS/2 v2.x is an excellent platform for what Kevin is trying to do. There is
- > >OS/2 version of Maximus that does the job very well.
- > >
- > >You would need at least 6 megs with OS/2 v2.0.......though the upcoming V2.1
- > >runs better in less memory. I have the beta for OS/2 2.1 running pretty well
- > >on a 386DX/25 with 4 meg of RAM on a PC at work.
- > >
- > >There are several BBS's here in Wellington running Maximus on OS/2. The nice
- > >part about is the vastly superior multi-tasking of OS/2 over Windows. This
- > >shows especially when dealing with modems and comms programs. DOS comms run
- > >under OS/2 but native OS/2 programs are definitly superior to anything aroun
- > >for smooth multi-tasking - like Maximus for OS/2.
- >
- > Note that this does, however, have the problem of not allowing the use
- > of most 'doors' (which are written to run on DOS) or of a lot of the
- > Opus-compatible utilities that Maximus on DOS should be able to run.
- >
- I'm sure there are ways to do this. As for the doors they should be able to
- be run by shelling out a command.com /c doorprogram and OS/2 will just load
- a temporary DOS session for that program under the OS/2 session. I've done
- some experimenting with this with normal programs and they worked just fine,
- but not in a BBS environment. Besides, as long as the OS/2 and DOS versions
- use the same file formats, then the DOS sysop utils that do file maintenance
- will still work running in a DOS session (unless the sysop uses longer file
- names than DOS allows).
-
- Greg
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