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- From: eddys@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Steve Eddy )
- Subject: Re: MUD for TBBS?
- References: <BzM5F4.JA7@gator.use.com>
- Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822 Sacramento CA. USA
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:40:10 GMT
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- larry@gator.use.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- :
- : Also a complete development system is included -- which gives
- : the sysop the ability to modify things to his/her hearts content
- : (and unlike TBBS he/she doesn't need to bring the machine down to
- : single user mode to do it)..
- :
- : --
- : Larry Snyder internet: larry@gator.use.com
- : keeper of the Gator uucp: uunet!gator!larry
-
- To quote from the letters section of the December, 1992 issue of
- Boardwatch magazine:
-
- "For BBS operators, the allure of UNIX is of course the multitasking
- multiuser aspect. The overhead of such an all-purpose operating system that
- accomplishes these two things is such that it virtually disqualifies itself.
- When UNIX affcianados discuss UNIX as a multiuser platform, they are
- visualizing a machine running processes at the behest of callers who are
- engaged in "transacional level" communications with the host. Writing
- messages. Providing input to programs. Viewing results produces by resident
- programs. Sure, you can do 16 or 20 lines of people reading and writing
- messages on a Unix machine.
-
- When BBS operators talk about multiple lines, they are talking about
- something quite different. They are picturing 20 lines with all of them full
- of callers sucking files off the hard drive at the maximum achievable rate -
- today 14.4kbps. Downloading files is still the main sport on public bulletin
- boards. Even mail is moving "offline" as callers use offline readers to do
- thier "transaction level" prcessing and the mail itself is downloaded as a
- file. A HOT 486 machine with Unix will fall to its knees and bark like a dog
- with six or seven simultatneous lines sucking files at high speed. You could
- perhaps run a LAN of UNIX machines with four or five lines on each 486 to
- some success. But the installation and operation of a LAN made up of Unix
- servers is a dauntingly complex task at this point. I would sooner try to
- suck start an Oldsmobile through the tailpipe."
-
- se
-
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