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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: bbs standards
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.132806.8699@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:28:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug28.132806.8699
- References: <199222.2065.567@channel1> <icmyPB2w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
-
- >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).
-
- Well, I know that CIS runs on something *really* odd (a heavily modified
- version of one of the old DEC OSes, as I recall)
-
- >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?
-
- Well, it *can* make a difference in the standards if you aren't going to
- restrict the standards to something that requires a "large" system. After
- all, there are *still* a lot of C64s out there! And they aren't even
- ASCII!
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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- (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
-