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Re: BBS under Windows

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From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:00
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In <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> knight@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Knight Before Christmas) writes:

>Greetings, all.  I'm planning to start a BBS on my data line but I'm
>also considering that the most effective way for me to run this BBS
>without wasting my machine resources is to have it running under Windows 3.1.
>At least, I have a lot of Windows software I can use while my BBS is 
>running.

>First of all, Sorry to whomever wrote PBBS for Windows -- it glitched way
>too much on me.  

>I am basically looking for some BBS package that runs CORRECTLY under
>MS Windows 3.1 enhanced mode.  I'd prefer to use Maximus BBS, which I
>am most impressed with, but it only works under standard mode.

This is news to me.  I've run Maximus 2.0 in a DOS box in Enhanced
Mode under Windows 3.1.  It not only runs correctly, but you can run
multiple lines if you set it up right, with real-time chat between the
nodes.

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Subject: Re: BBS under Windows
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