Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

 RJT> 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. 

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

I wasn't advocating that people build a system like that, just that OS2 can do 
it relatively easily. 

 RJT> I have little enough going on in terms of caller and mailer
 RJT> 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. 

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

You have seen me talk about that in the past. It has to do with the swap file, 
the session settings for the DOS sessions and other things. 

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

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