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What I remember of my '94 sysop kit: 486/dx2-66, OS/2 (3.1?), Synchronicty, MailGate and XeniaMailer (I ran a fido <=> uucp node) and something I'm forgetting I
by gravitas 7y ago
What I remember of my '94 sysop kit: 486/dx2-66, OS/2 (3.1?), Synchronicty, MailGate and XeniaMailer (I ran a fido <=> uucp node) and something I'm forgetting I'm sure.
- mycall 7y agoWWIV
- gravitas 7y agoThere was lots of WWIV around but they did not use Fidonet, they used WWIVnet which was not interoperable (different protocols and such). I believe the Renegade code branch of WWIV source was Fidonet capable but it's been too long, memory is very fuzzy.
- mycall 7y agoThere were a few ways for WWIV-Fidonet integration. One was using Doors. https://wwivbbs.readthedocs.io/en/v5.0/other_nets/ https://wwivbbs.readthedocs.io/en/v5.0/other_nets/
- throw0101a 7y ago> OS/2 (3.1?) DESQview and QEMM on DOS was also popular. It wasn't fully multi-taking, but it worked quite well. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM You also had to have a COM port that was connected to a 16550A UART, often done via a serial add-in card, because it had a whopping 16 byte buffer: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16550_UART#The_16550_FIFO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16550_UART#The_16550_FIFO