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Hey James!

Jan 01 18:04 06, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> One fella ran a BBS out of a RAM drive, and you'd be amazed at how it 
 JB> used to
 JB> cook!

No amazement here.  I have been running ttylinux on ram and telnet sessions to
a 486 are to die for.  I started work on chroot jailed BBS using ttylinux as the
base.  It needs some work to spiffy it up but the basics are there and mean as
mean can be.  I even have a optimized microperl to do some fancy-dancy
(re)formats on-the-fly.  It currently takes just under 4M but I have plans to up
the ante to 8M to give it more punch.  I also use this as a basis for a
maintenance bootable CD or DVD with a chrootable gcc4 rootfs if needed.

 JB> Sure, transfers were just as fast as the modem, but all his 
 JB> menu, and
 JB> door files were snapping to attention just as soon as you selected a 
 JB> key. 

Yep.  Reading you loud and clear.

I will willingly and happily confirm this as a very good idea and worth 100
times it's weight in bytes.

Life is good,
Maurice