On 2015-12-14 19:23, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: > > yup, definitely not... there aren't as many as there used to be,
wow, very interesting. > more... the big thing, today, is that we've been able to use virtual modems > which speak old style serial comms on the one side and telnet, vmodem or > possibly ssh on the other side... some systems also support rlogin as well as > having integrated ftp and web capability... I ran AdeptXBBS (OS/2) for about 3 years. It alread supported back in 1994 serial comms via modem, telnet, nntp etc. It was an awesome piece of sotfware. > BTW: there is at least one relatively modern BBS written with FPC and i'm > aware > of at least two others being ported to FPC from TP/BP. Yeah, the good old BBS days had loads of tools written with TP. RemoteAccess BBS software was very popular in South Africa. It was also written using Turbo Pascal. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
