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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
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Subject: RUNNING A BBS IN THE BACKGROUND?
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Date: Sat, 19-Jul-86 09:15:03 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 19 09:15:03 1986
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Keywords: QUERY [on feasability of a] BULLETIN BOARD BBS [in the] BACKGROUND
Summary: if the PC can do it ... consider it a challenge


		RUNNING A BBS IN THE BACKGROUND?

In this week's InfoWorld (Vol.8#28 of July 14, 86) in his regular column
"The Corporate View", Hank Kee states in the last paragraph on page 70:

	I have had success operating a bulletin board in the background mode
	on a lowly IBM PC while doing my normal processing in the foreground.

While I grin approvingly at the "lowly" reference (I know what HE meant, which
is not what I am thinking of, of course), I still wished I could duplicate
such a feature on the Mac.  Is there any hope that we might see such a
capability (as a Desk Accessory, maybe)?  A BBS can degrade a little every
once in a while without causing much of a problem, I should think. So that, as
long as the DA would stay active (or reinstall itself) while I change applica-
tions or switch between Switcher-partitions, I'd be willing to accept the
degradation of my response time for the capability to be able to run a BBS
simultaneously.

	---Werner	"say it's impossible and someone will prove you wrong"