Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To   : Nightfox
From : Prowler
Date : Mon Jul 29 2024 09:03 am

  Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
  By: Nightfox to Gamgee on Fri Jun 07 2024 03:27 pm

 >   Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
 >   By: Gamgee to fusion on Fri Jun 07 2024 01:34 pm
 >
 >  Ga> I never got aboard the OS/2 train.  Straight from DOS to Win, and
 >  Ga> eventually Linux.
 >
 > I went from DOS to Windows too, but in 1996 I experimented a bit with OS/2
 > because I was curious about it.  I could definitely see how it would have
 > been nice to run a BBS in OS/2 (even a DOS BBS).  I had also played a bit
 > with Ray Gwinn's SIO drivers, which allowed telnet access to a virtual
 > serial port..  I tried setting up a copy of RemoteAccess (BBS software for
 > DOS) with those SIO drivers and was impressed that I could successfully
 > telnet into it.  I also looked into an OS/2-native BBS package that I
 > thought looked interesting (AdeptXBBS) but never actually used it to run a
 > BBS.
 >
 > By that time though, Windows was the main OS I was using, and OS/2 was on
 > its way out, with not much software being made for it.
 >
 > Nightfox
 >

Your post really resonated with me.  I really had big hopes for OS/2.  While serving in the Navy we used Windows NT Server and Workstation primarily but OS/2 Warp made it's way into our internal network for managing building security (badging, door sensors, alarms).  I wanted to run BBS's on OS/2 but ended up using Windows instead. It's so nice now to have so many options all the way from CP/M and DOS all the way to Raspian, Debian, and some really cool distros.  I've even got Mint installed on a spare laptop which is pretty decent and gives Ubuntu a run for it's money from a desktop perspective.

Prowler (Tom)

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