Bob Jones wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Again it wasn't that way by default, straight DOS, and required
 MK> extra software to enable that functionality.  It seems to me that
 MK> emulation of DOS offers very little functionality and in fact adds
 MK> drag to a Linux system.

 RJT> The biggest single advantage to me would be my ability 
 RJT> to take my current setup and drop it in there and have 
 RJT> it work without having to fiddle with it.

 MK> If multinodal Maximus is the goal then it seems to me that one 
 MK> should just use dos/dv and let dv handle the networking aspect for 
 MK> DOS and Maximus.  Why cripple a Linux system just for a few simple 
 MK> text games?

Games are not an issue for me.  And my dos/dv box doesn't do networking
well.  I have the ability to go to just dos and load a packet driver, 
which will let me ftp stuff to the rest of the LAN,  but that's pretty
limited,  and not too terribly stable.  I could fiddle around with trying
to optimize so that driver works while dv is active,  but that's
time-consuming at best and I'd still end up with a dos box...

 BJ> dos/dv setup of Maximus has some smaller limits than an OS/2 setup
 BJ> of maximus for both single and multi-node environments.  I believe
 BJ> we compiled the Linux version for the higher limits.  I'm not sure
 BJ> we have all the bugs worked out for multi-node under Linux.

Multi-node isn't that much of an issue with me,  particularly since I don't
get all that many bbs users in the first place.

 BJ> We were still working on the telnet / dial-up issues when I last 
 BJ> had time to touch the source code.

Telnet access while I was online doing other stuff would be nice.

 RJT> Games are not an issue for me.  I'm not so sure that multiline is 
 RJT> these days either,  though there was a time when it might have 
 RJT> been.  I think those days are past,  though.

 BJ> Multi-node is needed if you want to use Max in in "unix" style
 BJ> setup instead of a "dos think" style setup.

Ok.  About the only time I'm multi-noding these days is when I fire up the
user editor or log on locally while somebody is online,  which is pretty
seldom.

 BJ> Grant it, if you are just going to run one copy of maximus in a 
 BJ> local console mode, then it doesn't matter.  But if you are going 
 BJ> to run a telnet line, plus be setup for a local sysop console, you 
 BJ> will need multi-node maximus properly working.

Ok.

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