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Interesting. 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 microcomput
by justinlloyd 5y ago
Interesting.
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.