Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Jul 29 2024 01:51 pm

 Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
 By: poindexter FORTRAN to Prowler on Mon Jul 29 2024 09:48 am

PF> I was all-in for quite some time. Worked with OS/2 1.2 and 1.3 in a IBM
PF> AS/400 and Lan Manager environment, then 2.0, then Warp 3 working with
PF> Netware - and then Windows NT 3.51 came out and it just *worked*.

PF> Ran the BBS under OS/2 Warp 3 for a couple of years, loved that I could
PF> have a mailer, busy BBS and all the utilities running in an OS/2 console
PF> in the background of my desktop and not even notice it was there.

I feel like I may have missed the heyday of OS/2, which seems to have been the early 90s.  My first computer, in 1992, was a hand-me-down 286 and I wasn't old enough to get a job yet - and I didn't get my first job until 1996, so in the meantime I don't think I had a PC that was really up to running OS/2.  Before I got my first job and bought my own parts for a new PC, the fastest PC I had was a 386DX-40, which I think could have ran OS/2, but I don't think I had enough RAM (I think I had 4MB max at the time) and maybe not enough hard drive space either.

Around 1994 or 1995, I bought a used copy of OS/2 Warp 3 at a used software store in my area (before they closed, I think due to legal reasons), and it was on floppies, and many of the floppies were bad..  Later (1996 or 1997), I bought a new sealed copy of OS/2 Warp 4 from my local Egghead Software (and I wondered if spending the $120 on it would be worth it), and I had my PC in a dual-boot setup with that and Windows for a little while.  I think one of the things I tried that I thought was really cool was using Ray Gwinn's SIO driver for OS/2 to make my DOS-based RemoteAccess telnettable.  But I only did that as an experiment; I continued running my DOS BBS in DOS/Desqview (and later Windows).

Nightfox

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