Hi Roy,

 RJT> Been a while here,  too.  One of these days I'm gonna
 RJT> finish getting OS/2 set up,  though.

Yeah, me too.  Been running it nearly 3 years, but am always several
fixpaks and other updates behind, that I really must do.  Works well
mostly, though.

 GH> Uses serial ports (Y,N,1,2)..........: [2]

 IS> I load BNU before DV, and so use N for that.  Otherwise,
 IS> aboot the same.

 RJT> Oh really?  I load bnu in the bink window,  so I have that
 RJT> set to 2 as well.  I read somewhere a while back that
 RJT> loading BNU was better done in the window, while X00 was
 RJT> better to load before DV.

Maybe for some, and maybe depending how it's done; it's always worked best
for me that way.  Need to run BNU /C in the window to bolt down the port,
is all.

One of the advantages for me is that I know where BNU's loaded, and even
after shuffling stuff around (not for years :) I can find the buffer
address to feed into my little debug script that dumps BNU's buffers to a
file.  Invaluable.

 RJT> SX16?  Really?  I guess some of those old boards I have
 RJT> around might prove useful after all,  maybe.  

:)  As long as the battery doesn't leak, no reason they should ever quit. 
I'm planning to turn mine into a dedicated data-collection box, probably
running DV, unless I can figure out UNIX device drivers.  I found it a
black art to find out how to write simple interrupt and/or DMA driven
drivers for OS/2, without much more time and money to throw at it than I
have to spare.

 IS> out some mad game or such, or the power fails.  It's long just
 IS> done Fidonet stuff though .. the real computers here run OS/2
 IS> and FreeBSD.

 RJT> That's a little further down on my list,  after I get OS/2
 RJT> up and running here,  Linux probably.  And networking.

You can do, people do, all the networking stuff in OS/2, but it's much less
pain (for me, anyway) when it's been properly integrated into the OS from
the kernel up.  I far prefer OS/2 for a useful workstation, but with UNIX
on the wire.  Hoping to have a bit of a play with ifmail/ifcico and BINKD
on the FreeBSD server box, maybe another one here - no, not an sx16 :) -
over the next few months; can't see running a dial-up PSTN Fidonet node
much longer.

Vale Vince P, eh?  May someone decent offer him a job worthy of his talents!

Cheers, Ian

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