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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Multi-line bbs possible?
Keywords: bbs multi-line
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.040326.8065@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 91 04:03:26 GMT
References: <1991Mar01.151325.5556@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991Mar02.073348.20023@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1991Mar3.221136.5828@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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In article <1991Mar3.221136.5828@bwdls61.bnr.ca> fortinp@bwdls56.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin) writes:

>I think you meant NiteLite which was previously used on the NCAUG BBS.  Thank
>goodness that beast is gone!  It used to do all sorts of nasties and crash a
>lot.  I'm not 100% certain, but I think it used its own hardware.

Ah, memories. The nightlite hardware was a generic box that had a
bunch of RS232 lines and a cpu and a little program. You could then
convince it to multiplex many slow lines into one fast one, and plug
that into your ST. I thought about doing a OS9 driver for it, but
getting it to do anything like interrupt-driven I/O must be nasty. And
the software in the box had to be really robust or it would have big
problems. The only BBS I used that had it was stable, but it was the
owner's machine.

DC's solution sounds much more robust and easy to deal with.