Hi everybody,
That's my very 1st post here and i suppose it won't hurt if i begin
with a personnal presentation. Well, i'm here because the `FidoNet_DOS-
InterNet' echo is in pretty bad shape and i fail to find people who have
something to share, other than me alone... I thought i might be luckier
in `SurvPC', i tried to participate to the `Rime_DOS' echo before but it
seems i wasn't read so i finally decided to check the SoftCon ~WEB~ site
and then i selected the `SurvPC' mail-list with it... My hobby is about
LEGACY DOS InterNet/BBSing; i used ~TelNet~ a lot, on a `Tandy-1000' PC
or a GridCase (8088), then a Carry-I (80286), etc., etc. I began to try
my teeth on an IBM `PC-XT' (8088 4.77 Mhz) after i was given a free INet
~PPP~ account, around 1995. Years later, i started having results using
`PC/TCP' (on a 8088 4.77 Mhz, no Hard-Disk)... then i found `EtherPPP',
`Klos', `LAN WorkPlace for DOS' and then `DOSPPPD' (`EPPPD'), or `LSPPP'
(an earlier replacement for `EPPPD'). The goal: a Stand-Alone Bootable
Multi-User/Multi-ISP DOS InterNet/BBS diskette for use on any PC with at
least 512 Kb ~RAM~ and a diskette drive (2 x 360 Kb or one 720 Kb unit).
I am currently using a 486-100 Mhz for my everyday tasks and i keep
my precious LEGACY PCs for when i'm ready for DOS INet LEGACY testing...
Those things are hard to find even in flea market these days. My reason
for doing this? In the begining this was because i wanted to be able to
use the free access i had be given, then i wanted to prove i didn't need
a full-blown ~GUI~-based system... :> I later discovered that, indeed,
i needed no more than an `XT' (which already existed a decade before), i
ended up proving that the BBS people (the authors, particularily), could
have developped an advertising tool that might have help their situation
a long time ago: a women called Igy once suggested that a diskette we'd
distribute in strategic point would help to make BBSing better known, my
knowledge of C++ and other programming languages didn't allow me to make
one that was neet but i think i proven my point well enough with a piece
of "GlueWare", nonetheless. Euh... that was before Bill wanted to kill
DOS definitively while the CD was starting to replace the diskette. %-o
Anyway, i'm still a DOS user even today. Some people want to try a
newer `Windows' breed on their old PC, the best i can think of is to try
an older `Windows' version (like `WfWG v3.11') on a 486-100 (which would
have made me dream in the days when DOS v6.0 and `WfWG' were released...
Now, enough about me. :) I haven't read too much backward in time
but i have noticed `FTP Wizard v1.00' and the author of `Basic Linux'...
There's also that topic about "Real Modems" to which i believe i'd reply
"TurboCOM VIP' and the like... :^) An other topic, which i didn't read
about in here but which got me curious lately: Instant Messaging... :)
I know DOS alone doesn't multi-task but i bet `Jabber' for `Basic Linux'
(or other?) would do a nice job at checking our `AOL', `ICQ', `MSN', and
`Yahoo!' "presence", etc. Finally, if you're a `{Commo}' user send me a
word as that's what i use to configure & load the `EPPPD' packet-driver.
:)
I wish i came to the right place to read about LEGACY stuff, etc...
I hope my kind of stuff can fit somewhere and i wish you all a nice day!
8-)
Salutations,
www.michel.samson.as
a/s Bicephale
... DOS+TCP/IP+TelNet+ZMoDem/Kermit+.QWK technologies for XTs or better!
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