Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!occrsh!uokmax!russ
From: russ@uokmax.UUCP (Russ "Random" Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Vaxess and MacWorkstation as Mac BBS Software
Keywords: macworkstation
Message-ID: <1940@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 19:48:51 GMT
References: <1868@uokmax.UUCP> <655@ethz.UUCP>
Reply-To: russ@uokmax.UUCP (Russ "Random" Smith)
Organization: Ultimatum Software
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[In <655@ethz.UUCP>, macman@ethz.UUCP said:]
->In article <1868@uokmax.UUCP> russ@uokmax.UUCP (Random J Nightfall) writes:
->>	What would you want to see in a BBS?  Try and be reasonable ...
->>	for instance, parallel processing is unlikely. ;-)
->
->We're also working on a completely new BBS software using
->MacWorkStation, a software package by Apple, which gives a
->host's application access to the complete toolbox
->of the remote Macintosh. Actually, it is even better because
->most of the work is handled by the MacWorkStation. You could
->for example tell the Mac to put up a text window, let the user edit
->it locally (Full cut/copy/paste and printing supported) and
->transfer its content to the host when the user closes the window.
->The host needs no special program per se, except for the application
->you're writing. However, as the structure of a Macintosh application
->is fundamentally different from a standard program (I don't need
->to explain this, do I?), You cannot use an existing program and
->just change the terminal driver. In our case, Gil Widmer and I
->are writing a BBS with Mail, chatter, file download area and 
->discussion forums (some of which are write protected, like 
->comp.sys.mac, which we get from another host). In a later time,
->we plan to embed Vaxess into that application, using Vaxess'
->transfer protocol, and to give the users access to external
->networks (Uucp, Bitnet, Internet, Span, etc).
->
->Any comments welcome. Especially the Applelink addresses of the
->makers of MacWorkStation.
->
->-- Danny
->
Well, Tom Dowdy at Apple mailed me some decent information on MacWorkStation
(thanks, Tom!  It got through fine; send you mail as soon as I have a chance
to read it) and who know -- we may at least include a user option for it.

Hard to say, really, but it is nice to keep one's options open.  Either way,
that's likely another thing that won't show up until a later version (along
with the graphics interfacing and so forth).


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Russ 'Random' Smith
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