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Article #173Searchlight (Bidirectional Flame)
From: Keith Lofstrom
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:51
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:51
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I started reading this group about a week ago, gathering information to select BBS software for a friend's organization. I started reading the "Searchlight" thread, and learned the following four important facts: 1) Many people love Searchlight. 2) Many people hate Searchlight. 3) It's not okay to punch DD disks to make HD disks. 4) It is so. Okay, granted that many of the subscribers to this group are 12 year olds who don't know any better - and who will probably react to this posting by cracking my system (don't bother, an 8 year old could do it) - nonetheless, I would ask the older folks to step in with some data about this (or any other) BBS software. What specific features are unique? What will it do? What important features is the software missing? Does the author or company answer the phone, and speak a recognizable language? Which language? Are there regular upgrades? What problems have there been with past upgrades? Can the program share data or setup files with anything else? And so on; functional, comparative questions. Statements like "it stinks" or "it is a blessing from God" are useless. Testimonials are useless. "It is better than" is a description of you, and not of the rest of the world. Just Give Me The Facts. Leave the opinions in their respective orifices. -- Keith Lofstrom keithl@klic.rain.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Power ICs
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