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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Running a DOS BBS in Unix
Message-ID: <162.284C61FD@zswamp.uucp>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 13:42:19 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario

Evan Champion (evanc@isishq.fidonet.org ) wrote:

 >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?

   Oh, it'll run... but I'm not sure that the FOSSIL will be able to keep up 
with 38,400 or perhaps even 19,200... remember that DOSMERGE is just one task 
under UNIX.

   Still, if you have the equipment, try it.  An NS16550AFN on your serial 
card would be a good idea, as would configuring DOSMERGE to claim exclusive 
ownership of that COM port (perhaps UNIX will be smart enough to invoke MERGE 
every time the serial port generates an interrupt).
 

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Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171)
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