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From: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: New Ideas in BBSes (No BS!)
Keywords: BBS Client Server Network
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Date: 1 Dec 88 21:10:44 GMT
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In article <1217@cps3xx.UUCP> raisch@frith.egr.msu.edu (Robert Raisch) writes:
>
>What if:
>	A BBS could offer windows, icons, menus, popups, multitasking,
>	online games, interactive communications (chat),
>	context-sensitive help, and all of this while supporting
>	multiple users on a machine not much more powerful than a
>	standard IBM PC?
>
>	This BBS could present a User Interface that was tailored to the
>	individuals own machine.  That would take advantage of graphics,
>	should the users machine support them.  That would offer
>	different "paradigms" to different users, while using the best
>	features of the users own machine?
>

Sounds like a great idea! I had been thinking about this... and have a
suggestion. There is a standard windowing interface, STDWIN, which is
available from gatekeeper.dec.com via anonymous ftp. It currently has
drivers for X11, the Mac, and Atari ST, and could no doubt easily
have drivers done for MS Windows and PC GEM. It has a client/server
module for TCP/IP, and with the addition of a serial packet driver,
you could have a serial client/server setup.

Interested?

-- greg

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