Elvis Hargrove wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

-> Loading server component on a DOS box is going to be a very expensive
-> proposition memory wise. There isn't enough to do a server properly
-> and still have the system be able to run real large DOS commands.

 EH> Not necessarily. Lantastic can all be loaded High complete
 EH> with Lancache and still leave well over six hundred K for
 EH> dos apps.

Didn't ever get the Lantastic to stabilize for me, but back a decade ago when
I had my old network running (arcnet under DOS using Netware Lite) it made
using DesqView impossible. I also had problems dealing with CD drivers, the
optical WORM drivers, the SCSI drivers and other things that were needed. I
eventually went to a standalone DOS server model using Netware Lite and even
went to the extreme of yanking the video card out of the server for 6 months. 

 EH> Accessed from a virtual Dos machine on the OS2 box you have
 EH> the best of both worlds. Like fer'instnce a Dos BBS or OLR
 EH> accessing a Dos BBS's files from the OS2 workstation.
 EH> Without interrupting normal BBS operation.

Why put the BBS on the DOS machine? OS2 can run the BBS software without even
noticing it is there. If you go with an OS2 native BBS you can run 4 analog
modems, a couple of virtual nodes, a dozen windows of tossers, news pullers,
ftp clients and other detritus and even handle your wife's business in
Quickbooks under WinOS2. With a well tuned config you can do this all on a
486sx33 with 16mb of RAM. A pentium allows it to run a bit faster but I have
found that the biggest thing is more memory is great but having a huge fast
pipe for tossing makes the most improvement in speed. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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