sean dunbar wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:
 DC> More importantly than the Lantastic question... Why? How many
 DC> 386/25's are you planning to hang on the system? Why not consider
 DC> having all the nodes run under OS2 on a shared IRQ.
 sd> I have 2 386's ready to go now, probably 3 when I'm done
 sd> plus my mom's Win95 system.  Why?  I'd like to relieve some
 sd> of the CPU load off of my OS/2 system, plus it'll make it
 sd> easier to add drives and CD-ROMs (no free drive bays in the
 sd> OS/2 computer; the old desktop cases I can get dirt cheap
 sd> all day have 4 bays, the minitower my os/2 computer is in
 sd> has 5 bays).
I don't really see the load as such on the BBS nodes unless some fool scans 
every message base for personal mail. Why someone would scan a couple 
gigabytes of Usenet (msgs to ALL) for personal mail is beyond me. Why a sysop 
would allow it is beyond me except I haven't found how to not have it scan 
those bases. Anyway, that seems to be the only time the system gets nailed 
and that only because the disk IO channel gets saturated scanning gigs of 
data. 
Good OS2 native BBS software will hardly make a burp on any CPU monitor. 
Consider going native on a single box and doing what I did for drive space, I 
took a second tower case and it has all my SCSI hard drives in it so that 
case stays powered while I do maintenance on the main tower. Between the two 
cases I have 11 5.25" half ht exposed, 1 5.25" half ht internal, 8 3.5" 
internal and 2 3.5" fdd external. I will be adding a third tower soon that 
will hold a half dozen CD ROM drives. 
But, anyway, as I understand things, Warp4 peer will talk to Lantastic and I 
believe that Lantastic for OS2 will do what you want directly but check the 
peer stuff first. I just think you will be disappointed using 386s especially 
if you start mucking with dos and MSCDEX and network drivers and trying to 
get peer software loaded and still have enough space for the BBS and doors. 
It really just isn't worth it anymore. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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