dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk.UUCP (01/15/88)
Hello everyone, I have a little request to make: I hope these newsgroups are reasonably appropriate [if they are not, my humblest apologies]. A friend of mine is about to become responsible for running a bulletin board for IBM PC users. He already runs a simple one-simultaneous-user FIDO system, but feels that he needs a more powerful system. He is keen on going all the way over to a computer conferencing system, and wonders what pre-written software [public domain, shareware, or commercial] is on offer. He intends to run such a beast on a single PC-AT, or possibly 386 machine. He can get 8 or 16 modems, and is confident that he can set them up as a single phone-line which selects the first unused modem. If necessary, he will write [or commission] such a system, but obviously he would prefer not to. He has heard of a system called Chairman. I have heard of CoSy [the BIX system??]. Can anyone give us more information on these or other systems? What O/S do they run on [do they run on PC's at all?] Please reply by mail, and if there's much interest I'll summarise any info I get.... [if you can't mail to me, for any reason, then post an article] Thanks in advance for any information, Duncan White. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dept. Of Computing, | Flying is the art of aiming oneself Imperial College, | at the ground and missing. London, SW7. | -- Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks England. | for all the fish.