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- APPENDIX L -- RBBS-PC in a CORVUS Network L-1
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- APPENDIX L -- RBBS-PC in a CORVUS Network
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- RBBS-PC uses the standard Corvus SEMAPHORES when sharing files among
- multiple copies of RBBS-PC within a Corvus Network. This is accomplished
- via the MS-DOS utility driver, DRIVEC2, that Corvus supplies with its
- network.
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- On a multi-server Corvus network (i.e. where there are multiple shared hard
- disk drives) all PC's that are running RBBS-PC within the Corvus network
- MUST have their "home volume" on the same server. Corvus maintains each
- PC's semaphores on that PC's "home volume". In order to "share" files
- among various PC's in a Corvus network, all the PC's that are "sharing"
- must also be looking at the same set of semaphores. In a single-server
- Corvus network this is not a consideration because there is only one "home
- volume."
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- RBBS-PC has been only tested with the Corvus CONSTELLATION II interface
- cards and software that Corvus provides for the IBM PC. RBBS-PC should
- work with both Corvus' older "flat cable" network as well as their newer
- OMNINET twisted wire pair cable network when running CONSTELLATION II
- software. It is entirely possible that RBBS-PC would work with some
- combination of both Corvus network types as long as they were running
- CONSTELLATION II software.
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- It should be self-evident that every PC within a Corvus network running
- RBBS-PC must have a Corvus interface card. If multiple copies of RBBS-PC
- are running in a Corvus network that is using older Corvus software (i.e.
- NOT running the CONSTELLATION II software), the interface cards must, at
- least, all have the CONSTELLATION II ROM.
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- RBBS-PC is tested only to run on IBM PC's within a Corvus network. Clearly
- an IBM "clone" that can run IBM's DOS, RBBS-PC.EXE, and is supported by
- Corvus' network should also work. However, such configurations (and their
- many variations) are not part of the environment within which RBBS-PC is
- tested and supported.
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