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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Apple BBS software
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Date: 18 Feb 91 19:44:08 GMT
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... sirval@polari.UUCP (Kevin White) writes:

>with USENET or FIDO, I have heard that someone finally
>went ahead and made one since Tom Jennings did not go ahead
>and create one.

>Anything with multi line capability and chat mode for all
>users (teleconference) is what I'm interested in.

There was something called Diversi-Modem (I think) that did allow multiple
lines and chat, but from what I've heard from others, it was chat only.
The advertisements said that it could drive seven (7) modems at once, but
I find this unlikely unless the program loaded from tape (no room for a
disk drive) and in 40 columns (slot 3 for 80 columns).

Basically it is a program if you want to dedicate your machine to the task
and use it for nothing else.  I've been told of GBBS boards that were
multi-node, but was told that it was multi-cpu, sharing a hard drive.

I believe the Proline software allows you to hook into Usenet.  Myself,
I'm an ACOS owner switching to METAL as soon as I can get an order sent
out.

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