bbs goodness
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Oh well that JS-tainted effort did not amount to much. Let’s try it on OS/2. Wait, what?.. It installs straightforwardly? (albeit slowly, see problem description below) Needs some hacking, but not at all comparable to the jackassery of dealing with UNIX incompatibilities? (one of the reasons why I’m abandoning this cesspool) And it even feels cool to create??
Yes.
Oh well that JS-tainted effort did not amount to much. Let’s try it on OS/2. Wait, what?.. It installs straightforwardly? (albeit slowly, see problem description below) Needs some hacking, but not at all comparable to the jackassery of dealing with UNIX incompatibilities? (one of the reasons why I’m abandoning this cesspool) And it even feels cool to create??
Yes.
That’s how life was before 2000 (okay, [windows]’95 era or whatever, I’m rounding up).
There are some difficulties with a nasty “hard drive” I/O bottleneck which I’m attributing to qemu. This wouldn’t have happened if the only 486 notebook with working PCMCIA slot (remember: virtual modems over TCP/23) wouldn’t have severe POST problems lately. Or if I had my old pre-2000 PC gear currently stashed away some 300km away. VMODEM sometimes messes up one of the ports, no idea why (yet).
I digress: the BBS is up (telnet://bbs.gabucino.be - use SyncTerm or at least “toggle crlf” in telnet), and I can up/download QWK packets for my favorite mailer: “Terminate!”, therefore accomplishing 50% of my goal. Yes, I have other stuff in mind too...