Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!altitude!pascal From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Running a DOS BBS in Unix Message-ID: <1991Jun10.030733.10632@CAM.ORG> Date: 10 Jun 91 03:07:33 GMT References: <1991Jun02.231233.3218@nstar.rn.com> <16293@life.ai.mit.edu> Organization: Altitude.CAM.ORG, St-Lambert QC CANADA Lines: 27 splee@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes: >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 213 lignes??? Un bon candidat pour une Equinox 768 ports... -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pascal Gosselin | Internet: pascal@CAM.ORG Applelink: CDA0585 | | Gest-Mac Inc. Apple VAR | Voice (514) 767-4444 Fax (514) 767-7337 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+