-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ml> yeah but that's not what i was alluding to... physical apples and
 ml> commodores are on the internet with live BBSes... they are physically
 ml> linked to another machine via serial cable and the other machine is
 ml> handling the network comms and passing that to the serial connection...
 ml> the apple and commie don't know they're taking calls over a non-POTS
 ml> network... that's my understanding of how they're doing it... something
 ml> like 9600 is best speed because of the serial capabilities of those old
 ml> boxen...

Which is getting away totally from virtual machines, hence the confusion.  The
most virtual thing you'll find there is a virtual modem (that handles the
telnet session and translates it to a serial connection).


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