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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Can the Amiga handle a multi-user BBS?
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 14:00:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 14:00:14 1986
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I have one question about an Amiga based multi-user bbs:

Who is going to be around to hit Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga when one of the users
gets a "task held" or some other guru meditation.

I figure that if you could redirect a CLI to read and write from the
serial port, you could turn the Amiga into a two-user machine.  The
drawback was crashes...  It seems that application programs can use
malloc, or whatever, and can deal rationally with an out of memory
condition.  The OS dead end alerts when it can't allocate memory, and 
a lot of the time it reboots by itself.