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- From: alv@ferris.cray.com (Albert Viall)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Multitalk(Mtalk) Ver.2.5 Testing Participants.
- Message-ID: <024635.24989@timbuk.cray.com>
- Date: 25 Oct 90 07:47:34 GMT
-
-
- I am looking at lining up a few interested people to help with the
- initial testing of a VERY new Multitalk multi-user conferencing program.
- Some of you may remember,(then again, some may not), that I uploaded Mtalk
- 1.5 to the net around christmas of last year. I will be the first to agree,
- that it was very buggy and badly written, and did not fulfill my envisioning
- of the Mtalk that I had WISHED to produce.
- I am looking towards Jan 1st as the date for the release of this new
- version which will allows any user with the client Mtalk program to connect
- to any Mtalk server running ANYWHERE which has Internet access. I will also
- provide an option to configure a server to remain local to its machine if
- the Mtalk Administrator wishes.
- If anyone remembers the old Mtalk, it had a very recreational twist
- to it,(i.e. Multitalk Talk Parlour), which the new version goes a step beyond.
- The server will be able to be totally configured, which means that no two
- Mtalk server's need be the same, which the Administrator can decide on when
- he/she compiles it.
- Plans are for the programs to be portable to SunOS, 4.xBSD, VAX running
- Ultrix, Pyramid OSx, and Cray UNICOS when the finals are distributed to the
- net.
-
- I will need a few volunteers to help with the Alpha, and Beta test modes
- which will start around Nov. 15. If you will be interested, let me know at the
- following e-mail address, and I will get back to you in the near future.
- If selected, these people will receive the 'client' programs in order to test
- out the `server` program which will be running here at Cray.
- With all this talk of Multi-user chat programs, I just thought
- some of you needed to know what was coming in the near future from the
- originator of `Mtalk'.
-
- Send inquiries to: alv@ferris.cray.com
-
- DISCLAIMER: This software is no way sponsered in whole or in part by Cray
- Research, Inc. or any of it's regional branches, and is the offering of
- the author only. With a little help from above. :-)
-
- Albert Viall
- CCN - Operations
- Cray Research, Inc.
- alv@ferris.cray.com
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