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From: carlb@pro-avalon.cts.com (Carl Boernecke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: In Cider
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Date: 5 Jan 89 06:47:13 GMT
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lexter@pro-abilink.cts.com (Sam Robertson) writes:
| Have any of you read the article about BBS's in In Cider.  Didn't mention
| much about Proline.  I was sorta surprised, I have look at all the products
| that were listed and I was not more impressed with any of them as I am with
| Proline.  Ever since SAW had setup the system here in Abilene, we have had
| more people call our system than we had when we were running GBBS Pro (God
| help us!).
| In my mind Proline is the best Host system around for the II computers.


There's two major reasons for the fact that ProLine is not as popular/metioned
as GBBS "Pro".

1) GBBS "Pro" (currently v1.3j, although a new one is expected sometime soon
   under a new name), is much cheaper than ProLine.  If I remember correctly
   I saw GBBS "Pro" v1.3j selling for approx. $119, including the Land of Spur
   game.  On the other hand, ProLine sells for $195 or such -- that is a large
   difference when you consider that a number of sysops would rather save that
   $74 and use it towards a faster modem/hard drive/any other possibilities.

2) GBBS "Pro" is many times easier to use/program than ProLine -- all you need
   is a text-based word processor, and you're set to write your own BBS.  All
   it takes is a bit of experimenting, and you can write a whole new systevm
   in a little less than two weeks (including testing) -- I know, I've done
   it.

Now that I think about it, there is another reason:

3) GBBS "Pro" is many times easier to pirate than ProLine (considering the
   size of the two, one is just a disk or two, and the other requires 5 MB's
   of data files, if I remember correctly).

No, I don't pirate, I'm just pointing out the facts.  I must admit though, I
prefer ProLine to GBBS anyday, but then again, I prefer a nice mini running
BSD 4.2/System V over ProLine.  :-)

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