4DOS

[Alex Snow]

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.
> >   
> 
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-- 
> > 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