Telnet bbs's are great, but there's just too many of them that are just the stock Synchronet install with a semi-creative name slapped on it. There are definitely a few good ones out there, I remember Gameworld had some fun things to play but unfortunately seems to have disappeared On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:46:30AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: > Yes it does. I can't say that the official JP Software version does but > the new versions at http://4dos.hit.bg/ do and my limited attempts seem > to work. Also, in Win98, you get both Doublespace and Drivespace. > Dblspace was stolen from Stacker who developed a competing product at > the time. Drivespace is supposed to be the same or similar but not > compatible. I think they just licensed it from a different company and > stuck their name on it. While we're here, remember the BBS era? Telnet > BBSs are still around and can be accessed from DOS if you have a packet > driver for your NIC card. Linux of course is much easier in this regard > but the standard telnet won't work because it needs to be a clean 8-bit > connection with no escape char and should allow Zmodem transfers if you > actually want to download files. Even though I've used Linux on a > server since 2004, using it again with the grml live CD and Speakup > reminded me of the old days with my Apple IIe. It's amazing how many > packages fit on a CD, albeit compressed. It's different when running > Linux on a desktop system as opposed to a web and email server. For > those of you who hesitate, I recommend trying a live CD, not necessarily > grml. I guess it reminds me so much of the Apple II because everything > is open and easily hackable. You just don't get that in Windows. > > Gaijin wrote: > > call the next release. I wonder if 4DOS will work with FreeDOS. I > > might not mind running Win 3.11 again if the screen reader works. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- > > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I > > should use Linux over BSD? > > No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on > creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it > certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able > to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the > mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the > name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too > technical. -- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux
