David Calafrancesco wrote in a message to Elvis Hargrove:

 DC> Why put the BBS on the DOS machine? OS2 can run the BBS 
 DC> software without even noticing it is there. If you go with an 
 DC> OS2 native BBS you can run 4 analog modems, a couple of virtual 
 DC> nodes, a dozen windows of tossers, news pullers, ftp clients 
 DC> and other detritus and even handle your wife's business in 
 DC> Quickbooks under WinOS2. 

I'd still like to know what can possibly be done to justify that sort of
activity here...  :-)

I have little enough going on in terms of caller and mailer activity to
justify the expense of a single dedicated line!

 DC> With a well tuned config you can do this all on a 486sx33 with 
 DC> 16mb of RAM. 

Please feel free to elaborate on what sort of tuning you refer to here.

 DC> A pentium allows it to run a bit faster but I have found that 
 DC> the biggest thing is more memory is great but having a huge
 DC> fast pipe for tossing makes the most improvement in speed. 

Ram is good,  yeah.  That's apparent to me from other stuff I'm doing on other 
machines.  I plan to max things out here on different boxes as I find that I
can afford to,  whenever that is.

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