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brian.miller@channel1.com (brian miller) writes:

> 
> -> I would have to agree with you.  Like another poster had mentioned,
> -> most of the companies support DOS platforms - which is the amateur
> -> market - the majority of which are single line machines.
> 
> Gee, Larry, still spreading that stuff?  Better do some
> research in the BBS market.  I'll give you a clue: the money
> isn't in the *nix niche.
> --
> Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA

Isn't YET in the Unix niche, on a global scale.  Of course, there's NT, Mach,
VMS, etc., etc.

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).

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?

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dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814