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Article #6477RUNNING A BBS IN THE BACKGROUND?
From: Werner Uhrig
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1986 13:15
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1986 13:15
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RUNNING A BBS IN THE BACKGROUND? In this week's InfoWorld (Vol.8#28 of July 14, 86) in his regular column "The Corporate View", Hank Kee states in the last paragraph on page 70: I have had success operating a bulletin board in the background mode on a lowly IBM PC while doing my normal processing in the foreground. While I grin approvingly at the "lowly" reference (I know what HE meant, which is not what I am thinking of, of course), I still wished I could duplicate such a feature on the Mac. Is there any hope that we might see such a capability (as a Desk Accessory, maybe)? A BBS can degrade a little every once in a while without causing much of a problem, I should think. So that, as long as the DA would stay active (or reinstall itself) while I change applica- tions or switch between Switcher-partitions, I'd be willing to accept the degradation of my response time for the capability to be able to run a BBS simultaneously. ---Werner "say it's impossible and someone will prove you wrong"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!ut-sally!ut-ngp!werner From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: RUNNING A BBS IN THE BACKGROUND? Message-ID: <3674@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-Jul-86 09:15:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.3674 Posted: Sat Jul 19 09:15:03 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jul-86 05:55:41 EDT Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 20 Keywords: QUERY [on feasability of a] BULLETIN BOARD BBS [in the] BACKGROUND Summary: if the PC can do it ... consider it a challenge