Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 Unisoft-Cosmos; site kepler.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!well!micropro!kepler!mojo From: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Inquiry on Bulletin Board System Software Message-ID: <295@kepler.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 02:33:38 EDT Article-I.D.: kepler.295 Posted: Wed Oct 16 02:33:38 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Oct-85 08:01:22 EDT References: <2034@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA Lines: 24 Ralph likes dial-up systems that require smart terminals -- move the user interface to the users PC. Yeah, but ... Not much makes me angrier than a system that I can't call from my TeleVideo 925 terminal, or my CP/M system running MEX, or a Model 100 from a bus station, or the UNIX system from work, or a TI Silent Terminal from my girlfriend's lab, or any of the hundreds of other dumb systems that are around. PLEASE don't build systems that require (a) special software and (b) only run on an IBM or an Apple or a Commodore. If you're intent on building such a beast, at least make the protocols public domain, and offer some sample source code to talk to it. Maybe I can suffer without my TeleVideo 925. -- Mojo ... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development {ptsfa,hplabs,glacier,lll-crg}!well!micropro!kepler!mojo