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- From: vpoy@terapin.com (Vincent Poy)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Subject: RE: "Renegade?"
- Message-ID: <vpoy.3ext@terapin.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 20:19:07 GMT
- References: <378.1431.uupcb@pcohio.wariat.org>
- Organization: BBS
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- In article <378.1431.uupcb@pcohio.wariat.org>, dave.miyares@pcohio.wariat.org
- (Dave Miyares) writes:
- >NG>From: CT64@music.mus.polymtl.ca (Nicolas Gauvin)
- > >Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- > >Subject: RE: "Renegade?"
- > >Message-ID: <19JAN93.17424152.0061@music.mus.polymtl.ca>
- > >Date: 19 Jan 93 21:08:00 GMT
- >
- >NG>In article <93018.160411U44149#uicvm.uic.edu> <U44149@uicvm.uic.edu>
- writes:
- > >> Has anyone used this "Telegard" clone? Is there any future supports for
- it
- > >>Or, has Martin Pollard going to come up with his own version? If so, where
-
- > >>we get a copy of it to try his new found venture. Thanks.
- > >>
- >
- >NG>Renegade is presently in beta testing. It's being written by Cott Lang
- > >and there are some nice features in it that you won't find in Telegard.
- > >There is a lot of support for it. There is a Renegade echo in the ITC
- > >net where you can report the bugs you found and give your suggestions.
- > >Presently the program is free to use. I can give you the phone numbers
- > >of the support board if you want. I just don't have it handy.
- >
- >Telegram is DEAD. Martin Pollard got screwed over by too many people
- >and called it quits. As for a future Telegard all that is is Vapor-Ware
- >right now. Cott Lang and his Renegade are LIGHT YEARS ahead of where
- >Telegard left off. First and foremost Renegade works in a multitasking
- >environment as well as a networking environment. I have only see a
- >multitasker of two dial in modem nodes with Renegade, however, I have
- >seen and fooled around with Renegade on a campus computer with 16 nodes
- >going at once. I would have had more going, but there were no more free
- >terminals at the time.
- >
- >Telegard can't and never will multitask. Anyway Renegade is far the
- >better choice, however, there currently isn't ANY documentation for it,
- >but there is a support node. Renegade is simple enough as were a user
- >w/o any previous knowledge of how a BBS works can configure it (Rengade)
- >to answer the phone in about 10mins. To have a fully functional board
- >(with message bases and file areas) takes about an hour. It's by far
- >one of the easiest boards I've seen for the IBM PC.
- >
- >Dave Miyares
- >
- >---
- > . TwM 2.6 . Totally Weird Message Reader 2.6.
- >
-
- >
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- I wouldn't say Renegade is the best... Let's not forget TAG.... TAG has been
- around longer than Telegard and offers Multitasking also and CD-ROM support...
-