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  • Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?

    From Exodus@21:1/144 to Xbit on Wed Nov 5 18:57:51 2025
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    DOS or OS/2.

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  • From xbit@21:4/107 to All on Wed Nov 5 11:08:40 2025
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  • From xbit@21:4/107 to Exodus on Wed Nov 5 16:04:23 2025
    Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
    By: Exodus to Xbit on Wed Nov 05 2025 06:57 pm

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    DOS or OS/2.

    Always wanted to build an OS/2 BBS back in the day.
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  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Xbit on Thu Nov 6 13:02:09 2025
    So awesome. Sounds like a fun retro project... I have a working 486 w/ win9 Perhaps i could switch the HDD an os/2 one :) that said, it also sounds lik lot of work as it would be a new world for me and not sure support is what once was. https://x-bit.org/info/retro486/

    Download FULLPACK.ZIP if you are gonna run OS/2 on old hardware. And OSTSR to help DOS programs. FULLPACK.ZIP gives you all the tips and tricks to modify what is needed in the 100000 line config.sys to get the most performance out of it.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to xbit on Thu Nov 6 07:16:44 2025
    xbit wrote to Exodus <=-

    Always wanted to build an OS/2 BBS back in the day.

    On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS
    cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for DOS
    in a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2
    binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the BBS was
    running and I could barely tell it was there.



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  • From xbit@21:4/107 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Nov 6 07:35:57 2025
    Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to xbit on Thu Nov 06 2025 07:16 am

    Always wanted to build an OS/2 BBS back in the day.
    On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for DOS in a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2 binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the BBS was running and I could barely tell it was there.

    So awesome. Sounds like a fun retro project... I have a working 486 w/ win95. Perhaps i could switch the HDD an os/2 one :) that said, it also sounds like a lot of work as it would be a new world for me and not sure support is what it once was. https://x-bit.org/info/retro486/
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Nov 6 09:13:32 2025
    Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to xbit on Thu Nov 06 2025 07:16 am

    On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for DOS in a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2 binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the BBS was running and I could barely tell it was there.

    By the time I first tried OS/2 Warp around 1996, I'd have liked to see OS/2 continue and succeed. However, Windows was already so dominant at that time that it couldn't really be stopped. I thought OS/2 Warp was more stable than Windows 95 and was able to run Windows 3.x and DOS software alongside OS/2 software without a hitch.

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  • From s2r@21:3/100.2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Nov 6 15:56:24 2025

    Hello poindexter!

    06 Nov 25 07:16, you wrote to xbit:


    On period hardware, OS/2 rocked. Windows wasn't ready to mulitask DOS
    cleanly for a long time. I ran a 486 with OS/2, and ran Maximus for
    DOS in a DOS window. Worked pretty well - but then when I moved to all OS/2 binaries, I could do whatever I wanted on the system while the
    BBS was running and I could barely tell it was there.

    OS/2 3 or Warp 4?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to xbit on Fri Nov 7 07:57:15 2025
    xbit wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    So awesome. Sounds like a fun retro project... I have a working 486 w/ win95. Perhaps i could switch the HDD an os/2 one :) that said, it also sounds like a lot of work as it would be a new world for me and not
    sure support is what it once was. https://x-bit.org/info/retro486/ ===

    Despite the challenge of keeping old hardware running, OS/2 would
    probably prefer older hardware. OS/2 has been updated, there's a version
    called eCOmstation and later Arca Noae (sp?) that support modern CPUs,
    USB and more.

    OS/2 was all about the CONFIG.SYS file, getting the drivers loading
    right was a bit of a pain if I recall. Once it loads up, you get a
    window environment called Presentation Manager that predated
    context-based menus with right-click options that changed depending on
    the context, and object context - drop a document onto the printer icon
    to print, for example.

    Its DOS support was amazing. You could create a DOS environment and not
    need to load any DOS drivers, instead using the system drivers, and get
    a lot of available memory - or create DOS virtual machine using
    whatever version of DOS you want to use. Unlike a hypervisor, you could
    share the file system with OS/2.

    The beauty of the system was moving to OS/2 binaries - I ran Maximus,
    Squish, Qedit, BlueWave and TimEdit all for OS/2, and the difference in
    system drain compared to running in DOS was minimal.

    Later versions could run older Windows binaries, but that was always
    fiddly, and was an indication that IBM had given up trying to compete
    with Windows. Sure, you could run Lotus Organizer, 1-2-3 and Word
    Perfect for OS/2, but not a lot of home users did.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to s2r on Fri Nov 7 07:57:15 2025
    s2r wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    OS/2 3 or Warp 4?

    OS/2 2.11, then 3, if memory serves.





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  • From s2r@21:3/100.2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Nov 7 15:12:48 2025

    Hello poindexter!

    07 Nov 25 07:57, you wrote to me:

    OS/2 2.11, then 3, if memory serves.

    I remember beta testing os2 warp 4. I went to IBM HQ to pick about 27 3 1/2" disks...



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Nov 7 18:02:23 2025
    Re: Re: Best or Favorite OS for a BBS?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to xbit on Fri Nov 07 2025 07:57 am

    Despite the challenge of keeping old hardware running, OS/2 would probably prefer older hardware. OS/2 has been updated, there's a version called eCOmstation and later Arca Noae (sp?) that support modern CPUs, USB and more.

    Arca Noae is the company; the name they've given the OS is ArcaOS.

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  • From mary4@21:2/150 to xbit on Sat Nov 8 09:27:50 2025
    FreeDOS is my fav os for bbses!

    <3 old school style but keep it nice xD

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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to xbit on Sun Nov 9 07:41:28 2025
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    I was getting bad request trying to access this URL.

    I would have voted Atari but it looks like I missed the voting window by about 13hrs!

    Seems like Win7 and Linux tied it up in the end.


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