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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Can the Amiga handle a multi-user BBS?
Message-ID: <621@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 05:16:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 05:16:00 1986
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo L. Schwab)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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Summary: Of course!

[ O Great Line Eating Bug, please accept this humble sacrifice.... ]

	Funny you should ask about that.  I'm planning on writing a multi-
user BBS for the Amiga as well, although I plan on doing it in C.

	Personally, I don't think you have much choice but to use C.  It
occurrs to me that BASIC is just too slow for such a thing, particularly
if you plan on hanging 3-4 users on it.  Granted, it won't be user-
modifiable, but at least it won't thrash.  A good compromise might be
FORTH (I said _might_, geez!).

	Unless I'm sadly mistaken, you're going to need a seperate phone
line and serial port for each user you want to be able to get on.  I hear
tale of on company that puts out 4 modems in one box (I have no idea how
this is arranged; anybody out there know?), which may help.

	I strongly suggest looking at as many different kinds of BBS
software as you can, so you can get ideas and decide what you like and
what you hate.  You also (sadly) have to take system security into account,
making sure a remote user can't get some form of a CLI, and also decide
how you want to do the system administration (this part is really easy
to botch up from a user-interface standpoint).  Then once you've got a
solid idea of how you want the system to look and "feel," you get to
grind out the code.

	If anyone out there thinks I've left anything out, lemme know.

					Leo L. Schwab
					well!ewhac
					dual!unicom!schwab

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