Re: Building a better BBS

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

a2retro wrote:
>  To: Michael J. Mahon
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> > Boot Zero wrote:
> > > Could you put it back online for a little while so we could have a 
> > > look around?
> > >
> > > With the relatively small sized audience of A2 BBS users, I don't 
> > > mind catching a busy every once in a while.  At least for now, it's 
> > > still a novelty.
> > >
> > > What about running multiple emulators?
> >
> > Wouldn't that present some file sharing problems?
> >
> > > Smohn Jith wrote:
> > >
> > > > METAL is light years ahead of ACOS and would be a good base to 
> > > > start. Telnet access would be great.  I had my old hacked up Metal 
> > > > BBS on the net for a while.  So did Terry Olsen.  The biggest 
> > > > drawback is the lack of multi-user.  That is the biggest downfall of 
> > > > an A2 BBS on the net. Lotsa people, from all over the world, can, 
> > > > but can't get on at the same time...
> >
> > -michael
> >
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> >
> > NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing!
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> >
> > "The wastebasket is our most important design
> > tool--and it's seriously underused."
>
> Michael here is your next opportunity for an AppleCrate II demo!!!
>
> Turn the system into a 16 node BBS with Ethernet capability in the 
> Master and Nadanet downstream to each of the nodes.
>
> Wouldn't that be awesome?

If I were a BBS freak, it probably would.  ;-)

I'm thinking that any such application would require asynchrony in the
communication, so one of the machines would need to be a Message Server.

The Message server is always ready to accept or deliver a message of
1-255 bytes, held in any of several queues, using the &PUTMSG and
&GETMSG operations.

I developed an Instant Messaging system to serve Apple II's on a
NadaNet for use at this year's KFest, but there didn't seem to be
much interest in running a cable down the hall...  ;-)

-michael

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