Yo! BUD:
Friday June 13 1997 16:28, BUD JAMISON wrote to BILL CHEEK:
 ->> Okay, okay, okay.....figger it out.  Mac's can't run FrontDoor, nor
 ->> most of the other nodelisted mailers, right?  But.......
 ->>
 ->> ;S |-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---|
 ->> ;S |  XW  Fido        12N   and higher |
 ->> ;S |      Tabby                        |
 ->> ;S |-+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---|
 ->>
 ->> Clearly "XW" nodes are Macs.  Soooooo......you find the number of Mac
 ->> is a statistically sound "guess" to assume that the rest of the non-P
 ->> population won't exceed the Mac population, since it is the second
 BJ> But 'Fido' is an IBM compatible program, and many Macs (and Amigas) are
 BJ> running Dos emulators.  There are also Unix/Linux systems hoked into
 BJ> Fido.  My point is you can't really know WHAT machine is running the BBS
 BJ> based on the nodelist.  You can GUESS, though.
"Educated guesses" are legit.  In the above case, there are a maximum of
466 nodes in the US that use the "XW" mailer.  If not all of them are Macs, 
then the picture is worse than I painted it.
All things considered, there are likely fewer than 500 Macs running 
Fido-ware. If you believe different, then throw some numbers out.
So it's offset by a few Macs that run DOS emulation - big deal.  We all know 
how "well" Mac's run DOS and Windows emulation.  Not.  Which means the 
Mackies have to degrade their machines all the more to run FIdoware.
This is a part of the reason why Fido is going to s*it in a handbasket. 
Literally everyone has to degrade their resources to run the junk.  That, or 
cough up an arm, leg, and lugnut to pay for the rare good stuff.  You know 
how you are against paying for stuff.....which means one of two things:
1.  You run pirate-ware, or
2.  You run with degraded resources using the affordable stuff.
Either one is a thorn in Fido's side
Like you've aptly pointed out in the past, an AT/286 is ample to run most 
Fidoware.  So anyone who dedicates a 386 and up, is wasting a chunk of their 
valuable resources, thanks to the ancient and anachronistic Fido technology.
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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