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From: erlendd@makro.nhh.no (Erlend Dyrnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Multi user BBS software
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.090101.14158@makro.nhh.no>
Date: 13 Sep 90 09:01:01 GMT
References: <1990Aug29.030625.21716@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <PH62303.90Sep9175951@kaarne.tut.fi> <21943@grebyn.com>
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
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jmbj@grebyn.com (Jim Bittman) writes:

>In article <PH62303.90Sep9175951@kaarne.tut.fi> ph62303@tut.fi (Hartoma Petri Juhani) writes:
>>In article <1990Aug29.030625.21716@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes:
>>>   I'm looking for some decent multi user BBS software, I'm having a very
>>>   hard time finding any in the DOS world.  The only thing I have found
>>
>We use Galacticomm from Galacticomm,Inc.  The complete 2-user version is
>available for PCs at $59!  The system can be upgraded for $300 per
>doubling.  Anyway, we like it.  

I think it's hard to find a really good working multiuser BBS for DOS. You
should perhaps consider other OSes.

I am a SYSOP at the largest multiuser BBS in Norway, and we run a home-made
system called BBB/CS. It runs under Quantums QNX which operates perfectly
on a 286 or 386 system. At the time we handle 23 external logins, 7 on
ordinary modems and 16 on X.25, and our 386 has no problems except for
disk I/O access time (that will be a problem anyway on such small systems).

QNX is pretty affordable, compared to for instance UNIX, and is a real-time,
multitasking system. You are able to run DOS as a task if you prefer.

BBB/CS is for sale. Please call for info on voice phone +47 5 32 38 14.
If you like a look at the system, the numbers are :
+47 5 32 37 81, +47 5 32 44 47 or 2422 450134.

erlend