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There were multi-node PC BBSes around here that did the same thing back in the late 80's, early 90's. An 8 line BBS consisted of 8 lower-end PCs plus a higher P
by icedchai 5y ago
There were multi-node PC BBSes around here that did the same thing back in the late 80's, early 90's. An 8 line BBS consisted of 8 lower-end PCs plus a higher PC acting as a file server on a Novell network, running PCBoard. They simply didn't know how to do it any better. Most people knew DOS.
There were a couple of Unix BBSes locally, but they were few and far between. I started mine on an Amiga but eventually moved to Linux.
As for Rust and Edie's, that setup must've been nuts. 100 PCs in a house must've been insane back then, especially in a residential setting. It would've been a pain just getting that much power and phone lines brought in.
- justinlloyd 5y agoInteresting. I only ran in to PC based BBS' running a few lines or so. Anything more was Amiga or, more usually, UNIX (or some variant) on either a microcomputer or a minicomputer. I agree, a hundred or more PCs in a home, burning between 100W and 300W would have been absolutely insane.
- icedchai 5y agoThere were other PC alternatives, like DESQView (386 multitasker) or OS/2, but most PC sysops didn't seem to go that route for whatever reason.