19 May
2017
19 May
'17
3:23 a.m.
On 18 May 2017 at 17:16, allison via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
All a DOS BBS was was a user interface that provided
security by requiring
user/password
and limiting the commands usable. The easy was to do that was a version of
the CMD module
rewritten to not have things like RMDIR and DEL.
I was never into the BBS scene, because outside North America, local
phone calls cost money. So you paid for every minute you were online
-- quite a lot.
I used (and still use) CIX (www.cix.co.uk) which was a sort of UK
version of BIX, and used offline readers -- you dial up, it sends your
comments, zips & grabs all your messages, and disconnects, as fast as
possible to keep the phone bill down.
But AIUI later-era DOS BBSes often used DESQview to allow multiple
multitasking user sessions, and the BBS sysops were often early
adopters of OS/2 2.
So DOS <> no multitasking...
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