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- From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
- Subject: Re: TBBS versus RA/Netware
- Message-ID: <By4M83.7su@gator.rn.com>
- Organization: The Gator Conferencing System 219-289-3745
- References: <1992Nov17.184131.60943@cc.usu.edu> <1992Nov18.024609.5364@eff.org> <BxxnyG.C6n@gator.rn.com> <1992Nov21.191516.4859@eff.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:38:27 GMT
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- adamg@eff.org (Adam Gaffin) writes:
-
- >Uncle! You're absolutely right. You can not do every single thing with
- >TBBS that you might do with your Unix setup. On the other hand, I am
- >running a two-line BBS on an 8 MHz AT with 640K of RAM. For what my
- >company is using the BBS for, that is more than adequate, and we didn't
- >have to spend several hundred/thousand dollars more just so somebody can
- >have fun with perl scripts.
-
- I was running QNX on a 286 and had 4 HSTs all locked at 19200 baud
- on dumb ports -- and throughput was in the 1600 cps range. I was
- able to spawn external QNX applications on any of the lines.
-
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