Hello Henri,

On Wednesday May 29 2019 22:53, you wrote to me:

 BF>>> In case you didn't know it, Fidonet is and has always been a DOS
 BF>>> based network.

 MvdV>> Not any more.
 MvdV>> Systen running on pure DOS are the rare exceptions these days.

 HD> Mine for instance ;-).

Wrong tense. Your DOS FrontDoor system /was/ one of the rare exceptions. It is
no longer operational. It may have been the last of the Mohikans. ;-)

 MvdV>> AFAIK no Fidonet mailer ever ran on an 8 bit system.

 HD> That is not completely sure.

Note the "AFAIK".

 HD> Some guys of our othernet AcoNet wrote FTN BBCscan software for the 8
 HD> bit Acorn BBC B computers to communicatie with FidoNet systems.

I too wrote software for my 8 bit Flex system to "communicate with Fidonet
systems". I could use it to read and write messages posted on BBS's
participating in Fidonet. But it was not a Fidonet mailer. It could not do
FTS-1.

 HD> That was at the end of the 80's start of the 90's.

If that Acorn BBS system was really a Fidonet system, what was its node number
and in which period was it in the Fidonet nodelist?

 BF>>> and then 32 and now 64-bit systems, I've been fighting with stuff
 BF>>> like big vs. little endians and similar, I happen to know.

 HD> I have heard that terms before, and I neither understood it.

Then I will refrain from trying to explain, it is not relevant for the
discussion at hand. It was just a smoke screen.


Cheers, Michiel

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