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dawson@willard.UUCP writes:

>Perhaps you'd care to consider some real dial-up text/file services (like CIS
>or Delphi) rather than the "multi-line" bbs's most persons have in mind (dinky
>little six or twelve line systems, as compared to hundreds of lines).. any
>guesses as to the system hardware/software they use?  I'd lay you some very
>good odds they're not running on a stinkin' PC with MS-DOS!  (And that would
>be highly unfair, at least insofar as Delphi is concerned, as I already know
>the HW/SW configuration of their host systems).

Well, I know that CIS runs on something *really* odd (a heavily modified
version of one of the old DEC OSes, as I recall)

>Who cares?  What does selection of OS have to do with any discussion of
>so-called "BBS standards?"  Just what aspects of bbs operation/implementation
>would we need to have standardized?  What would be the benefits and drawbacks
>to accepting those standards?  What hidden agendas are at work?  Is there a
>conspiracy?  Can it possibly get more interesting?

Well, it *can* make a difference in the standards if you aren't going to
restrict the standards to something that requires a "large" system. After
all, there are *still* a lot of C64s out there! And they aren't even 
ASCII!

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Leonard Erickson		      leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
CIS: [70465,203]			 70465.203@compuserve.com
FIDO:   1:105/51	 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
(The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)