Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!jdickson From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Amiga BBS software Message-ID: <1991Jun26.170558.16740@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 26 Jun 91 17:05:58 GMT References: <6767@uafhp.uark.edu> <1991Jun25.184329.7292@news.iastate.edu> Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 44 In article phils@ampun.UUCP (Philip Sokolowski) writes: >In article <1991Jun25.184329.7292@news.iastate.edu> taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes: >>In article , phils@ampun.UUCP (Philip Sokolowski) writes: >>>In article <6767@uafhp.uark.edu> kcampbel@uafhp.uark.edu (Keith Alan Campbell) writes: >>>> >>>>A friend of mine is considering starting up a local BBS using either his 3000 >>>>or a 1000 dedicated just for the BBS. He'd like to know what software is >>>>available, either commercial or PD, that can handle fidonet and/or usenet news >>>>and email. >>>> >>>>Thanks! >>> >>> If your friend is planning on usiong the 1000 for the BBS, then he had >>>better have a hard drive on it or else it will never really work. >>> >> >> This is one of the nice things about the Amiga, but if you have a 1000 >>just sitting around, might as well use it. >> >> You don't need a harddrive, unless your friend plans on having lots of >>downloads. If it's just messages, a two floppy system would work >>adequately. But if you want any downloads, you will need a harddrive, >>in which case it's probably better to expand the 3000. Unless you're choosing to run a BBS under UNIX and on an A3000UX, there's no sense in dedicating an A3000 to a BBS if you have an old A1000 lying around. AmigaDOS does not implement memory protection and so it is "unsafe" to concurrently use the A3000 for your own uses and run a BBS. A possible route would be to use one of those expansion chassis. The only problem is that the chassis' on board power supply may be too wimpy to supply the power you need. I tried to combine an A2058 and an Applied Ingenuity Hard Disk. One would run without the other, but not together. If your BBS is multiline, you may need the A3000 just, because it can deliver more horse power. If not, the A1000 should do just fine. > >Philip Sokolowski (__) Moooooo >31700 Lexington Hgts. (oo) / >Warren Michigan /-------\/ >48092-5002 / | || Cow by > Here is the Cow of the week! * ||----|| Eric Tilenius > ~~ ~~ >UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!ampun!phils -jeff