Re: METAL is now FREE!!!!!!

[dvac@druwa.ATT.COM (Daniel Vachon)]

All this talk about METAL...Well, I will say that if you are running on an
un-accelerated Apple //e, or even a Transwarped //e....I would not recommend
METAL/FV for you.  I ran a Metal BBS for about a year (used to run on ACOS),
and the switch ended up driving away a lot of users because it took forever
to do many things that used to be quite fast under ACOS.  If you have an
8MHz //gs, METAL is a great way to go....But if you are on a budget with a 
normal //e...I would not suggest METAL as it is quite slow (painfully so, 
really...)  

My 1 MHz ACOS system ran about 5 times faster than by 3.8MHz METAL system.
I have a //e w/1Meg RAM, 80 meg scsi HD, Transwarp //e (SCSI port was 
accelerated), and a USR HST.   The one thing that is REALLY nice that METAL
has and ACOS doesn't is the really slick full-screen editor that METAL has.

just some food for thought...

-Dan Vachon