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- From: dawson@willard.UUCP
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: bbs standards
- Message-ID: <icmyPB2w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 12:39:29 GMT
- References: <199222.2065.567@channel1>
- Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
- Lines: 33
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- brian.miller@channel1.com (brian miller) writes:
-
- >
- > -> I would have to agree with you. Like another poster had mentioned,
- > -> most of the companies support DOS platforms - which is the amateur
- > -> market - the majority of which are single line machines.
- >
- > Gee, Larry, still spreading that stuff? Better do some
- > research in the BBS market. I'll give you a clue: the money
- > isn't in the *nix niche.
- > --
- > Channel 1 (R) Cambridge, MA
-
- Isn't YET in the Unix niche, on a global scale. Of course, there's NT, Mach,
- VMS, etc., etc.
-
- Perhaps you'd care to consider some real dial-up text/file services (like CIS
- or Delphi) rather than the "multi-line" bbs's most persons have in mind (dinky
- little six or twelve line systems, as compared to hundreds of lines).. any
- guesses as to the system hardware/software they use? I'd lay you some very
- good odds they're not running on a stinkin' PC with MS-DOS! (And that would
- be highly unfair, at least insofar as Delphi is concerned, as I already know
- the HW/SW configuration of their host systems).
-
- Who cares? What does selection of OS have to do with any discussion of
- so-called "BBS standards?" Just what aspects of bbs operation/implementation
- would we need to have standardized? What would be the benefits and drawbacks
- to accepting those standards? What hidden agendas are at work? Is there a
- conspiracy? Can it possibly get more interesting?
-
- --
- dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
- Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
-