17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
7:16 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, JP Hindin wrote:
<chuckles>
True, thanks Mike. I was being specific about DOS, actually - although I
didn't say so, my bad. Certainly there were... shall we say, somewhat more
advanced OS' that just simply "worked". I was more curious about what
wedges people put in place to make multi-nodes in DOS... where it really
didn't.
Thanks though!
- JP
How did people set up multi-node BBS' back in
the day?
I know you could run something like Desqview and run multiple copies on a
single system, and some BBS' (like TBBS) had built-in multitasking so it
handled multiple modems. And, of course, you could get fancy and run a
Novell network. Were there other ways of doing this?
Yes, on a real multi-tasking OS. A friend of mine and I ran a
home-grown BBS on a Tandy 6000HD running Xenix for a couple of years
starting in 1986 in Sumner, WA. Four 1200bps modems plus the console
allowed 5 of us to be on at the same time. It was primarily a message
system (room-based), with a real-time chat facility.