werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (07/19/86)
RUNNING A BBS IN THE BACKGROUND? In this week's InfoWorld (Vol.8#28 of July 14, 86) in his regular column "The Corporate View", Hank Kee states in the last paragraph on page 70: I have had success operating a bulletin board in the background mode on a lowly IBM PC while doing my normal processing in the foreground. While I grin approvingly at the "lowly" reference (I know what HE meant, which is not what I am thinking of, of course), I still wished I could duplicate such a feature on the Mac. Is there any hope that we might see such a capability (as a Desk Accessory, maybe)? A BBS can degrade a little every once in a while without causing much of a problem, I should think. So that, as long as the DA would stay active (or reinstall itself) while I change applica- tions or switch between Switcher-partitions, I'd be willing to accept the degradation of my response time for the capability to be able to run a BBS simultaneously. ---Werner "say it's impossible and someone will prove you wrong"
baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) (07/25/86)
A while back, a guy wrote a DA that could do xmodem downloads in the background,
without a great loss of speed in the foreground. Perhaps he could write a BBS
in a similar fashion?
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