On Mon, 06 Jan 2014, John Kelly wrote to Jeff Binkley:

-> I solved the problem by running OS/2 WARP as a guest operating 
-> system under VMware's VM workstation product.  I've got OS/2 WARP 3 
-> running PCBoard sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server as a guest VM.  
-> I no longer have to worry about hardware.  I only support telnet 
-> access.

 JK> I'm familiar with all those, but making PCBoard talk telnet is the 
 JK> missing link.  What do you use for that?

on winwhatever, that would be netserial, i think... whatever product of
pcmike's that emulates a modem...

on OS/2, that would be the vmodem driver with the SIO replacement comms
package from Ray Gwinn of X00 fame...

on linux, i understand that there's something built into dosbox or dosemu or such...

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