sdenbest@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) (05/14/87)
Message System". Instead of being a typical message-oriented system,
it has two disks. On one of the disks about 700 lines of text-space
are available, and the interface is an editor. (You may not, however,
delete anything previously entered, only insert at the end.)
When that disk is full, it is swapped to the other drive, which is read-only,
and a clean disk is put into the changable drive.
In addition to the usual BBS type activity, there has been for a number
of years now a continuing story with several participants. It is rather
bizarre, to say the least - some of the plot turns have been pretty
strange. It is being run as a sort-of fantasy-role-playing scenario
without a DM, set in more-or-less modern times. One of the villains I
remember was an executive of a Mobil-type oil company trying to use
his money to buy exotic technology to rule the world. At various times
they have participated in parties, dimensional travel, terrorist
activity and all sorts of things.
It could be that BWMS no longer exists - it has been two years since I
lived in Portland. Could someone in Portland who knows about such things
either confirm or deny? Perhaps Rick Bensene if still at Tektronix?
By the way, on another subject: I thought the whole idea was going to be
to move this discussion OUT OF the comp.sys groups and INTO misc.misc.
If every lazy user uses "f" to post their articles, they get followed
up into ALL the groups. How about not "f"ing and doing original postings
to misc.misc from now on? The only reason I am posting this one to all
four groups is for this one paragraph - otherwise I would have posted
it only to misc.misc.
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Steven Den Beste
Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge MA
sdenbeste@bbn.com (ARPA or CSNET)
"The voice within the candle whispers of a timeless peace beyond." - Paul Winter