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How did multi-node boards work?

From "DaiTengu" <daitengu@warensemble.com.remove-68v-this>
Subject How did multi-node boards work?
Message-ID <5D02D358.917.unet-abgenera@warensemble.com> (permalink)
Organization War Ensemble BBS
Newsgroups alt.bbs.general
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Date 2019-06-13 17:51 -0500

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  To: Grant Taylor
  Re: How did multi-node boards work?
  By: Grant Taylor to alt.bbs,alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.bbs.general on Wed Jun 12 2019 09:53 pm

 GT> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.general

 GT> Followups to: alt.bbs.general

 GT> Hi,

 GT> How did multi-node boards work?

 
 GT> Did they require support from the board software?

 GT> Or did each node (machine) only know about the drive letters and serial 
 GT> ports that it had access to?

 Basically it required support from the BBS software. Usually it ran under a
multitasking OS such as Desqview or OS/2.  Now days Windows and Linux are quite
capable of running multinode BBS packages.

DaiTengu

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How did multi-node boards work? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-12 21:53 -0600
  How did multi-node boards work? "DaiTengu" <daitengu@warensemble.com.remove-68v-this> - 2019-06-13 17:51 -0500
    Re: How did multi-node boards work? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-14 20:12 -0600
  RE: How did multi-node boards work? "Marc Lewis" <@p0.f45.n396.z1[ASC46]fidonet[.]org> - 2020-08-18 09:58 +0000
    Re: How did multi-node boards work? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2020-09-06 21:54 -0600
      Re: How did multi-node boards work? "Marc Lewis" <user@net396.fidonet.org> - 2024-04-03 20:47 +0000
        Re: How did multi-node boards work? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-04-12 09:19 -0500
          Re: How did multi-node boards work? "Marc Lewis" <user@net396.fidonet.org> - 2024-04-17 17:18 +0000
            Re: How did multi-node boards work? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-04-17 20:34 -0500

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