Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Running a DOS BBS in Unix
Message-ID: <165.284CD2C3@zswamp.uucp>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 04:02:18 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario

In a letter to All, Larry Snyder (larry@nstar.rn.com ) wrote:

 >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?

 >Not at high speeds --  2400 baud is possible - maybe even 
 >9600 baud - but forget 38400 

 >there are several problems - one is SCO's asy driver, and 
 >another is DOS merge and/or VPIX itself.

   That's why I suggested using a dumb DOS COM port (hopefully with an 
NS16550AFN) and telling VP/ix to claim exclusive lock on that port while it's 
running.  The FOSSIL will grab it directly and, with the help of the 16550, 
run it at high speed.  The asy driver has nothing to do with it.

   I have done this (a year or two back): I used Telix under Xenix 386 
2.3.something and VP/ix (probably 1.0) to run a T2500 at 19,200 bps.

 >If you want to run a DOS board - boot DOS.

   T'would be a shame to buy a whole new box if the place was *NIX 
oriented and the only DOS thing they wanted to do was run a one line BBS!
 

--  
Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171)
root@zswamp.uucp or ..uunet!watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root
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