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On or about 01-02-06 05:51, Maurice Kinal did engage James Bradley

 MK> Hey James!

Heya your own self. Still didn't tumble into the sea?

 MK> 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!

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

These four megs of screaming RAM... Is that in the pantry, or the shed? 

I still have to nod my head with a glossy look as I read. I recognize some of
the techno-bable, but I'm still solidly confused. It looks like I am
gravitating to Gentoo at the moment. Suns' Yast seemed to do nothing for me,
but the pictures were pretty.  Knoppix was promising too. Actually
operated the TV tuner (Brooktree), where Windows was waiting for DX5 to
install! 

 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.

 MK> Yep.  Reading you loud and clear.

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

Baud rate, Maurice... Baud rate! 

But imagine the constraints of Max on DOS for this fella. Wish I could remember
which board it was. Those were the days when online time was so restrictive,
and the POTS line was RARELY available.



.. James
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