Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!ai-lab!pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu!splee From: splee@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Running a DOS BBS in Unix Message-ID: <16293@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 13:02:34 GMT References: <1991Jun02.231233.3218@nstar.rn.com> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: FSF Guest Machines Lines: 16 In article evanc@isishq.fidonet.org (Evan Champion) writes: >Is this memory overhead or just that it will run too slowly. If it is >memory, then that isn't really a problem with 8 mb of RAM, but I could see a >slow communications driver. So, there is no way to run a DOS board under >Unix? > I subscribe to a Exec-PC in Wisconsin, which IS running a DOS bbs under Unix. They have multiple networked 386/486 running Unix (Don't know which) and 213 phone lines! So it IS possible. Of course, the Sysop may have written custom drivers. I don't know. However he is able to support V.32bis modems running V.42bis at a DTE rate of 38.4K, so he doesn't seem to have a problem with a slow comm driver. -- Seng-Poh Lee splee@gnu.ai.mit.edu