On 18 May 2017 at 17:16, allison via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > All a DOS BBS was was a user interface that provided security by requiring > user/password > and limiting the commands usable. The easy was to do that was a version of > the CMD module > rewritten to not have things like RMDIR and DEL.
I was never into the BBS scene, because outside North America, local phone calls cost money. So you paid for every minute you were online -- quite a lot. I used (and still use) CIX (www.cix.co.uk) which was a sort of UK version of BIX, and used offline readers -- you dial up, it sends your comments, zips & grabs all your messages, and disconnects, as fast as possible to keep the phone bill down. But AIUI later-era DOS BBSes often used DESQview to allow multiple multitasking user sessions, and the BBS sysops were often early adopters of OS/2 2. So DOS <> no multitasking... -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053
