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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Running a DOS BBS in Unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun06.134603.2506@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 13:46:03 GMT
References: <165.284CD2C3@zswamp.uucp>
Organization: NSTAR, Indiana's BBS 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
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root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:

>   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!

I disagree.  The could by an XT and use PCNFS or PCI to access the
drives on the UNIX box for about the same amount of money as VPIX / 4 megs RAM
and throughput would be just as good and there wouldn't be any additional
loading on the UNIX host.

-- 
      Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
                         HST/PEP/V.32/v.32bis/v.42bis 
                        regional UUCP mapping coordinator 
               {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!larry}