On Thu, 18 May 2017, allison via cctalk wrote:
Never forget, BBS were about storage and cheap which
at that time were mostly
opposed (disks weren't cheap!). The amount of Ram and CPU were less
important
considering what had to be done. Often the modem and hard disk were as
costly
as the basic system and we didn't exceed 2400 baud till '85or later. Most
anything
could keep up with IO at under 4800 baud.
Here's what amounts to a canonnical(sp?) list of BBS programs for a number
of different platforms:
http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/
g.
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