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Remembering multi-tasking in MS-DOS: DESQView (blog.raduzaharia.com)

submitted 9 months ago by raduzaharia@lemmy.sdf.org to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Wow it's amazing you've still got one going. Are you still letting users connect to the system? Over IP I'd imagine. Recently I went down the rabbit hole and found that MajorBBS is now available for free. I installed it in a virtual dos environment and got tcp/ip connections to it up and running. That system, at least in it's heyday, was one of the few that could run multiple lines simultaneously in DOS and I always wanted to see the backend.

My BBS back in the day was running Wildcat! As well and then eventually moved to RoboBOARD which had the first mouse gui system. For the front end I used BinkleyTerm to get FIDOnet working. For a lot of the time it was up and running on OS/2 as well, so I could get multiple lines working.

Such great stuff that led me directly into an IT/entrepreneur career.