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Re:DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future by EricE on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:21PM (#29397628)
Yes, I knew several guys that used DesqView for running multi-node BBS's. Before DesqView, it wasn't uncommon for multi-node BBS guys to have a Novel server and one PC per modem per phone line.

I played with but didn't run it - I was running Maximus on OS/2 at the time :)

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Re:DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future by sixothree on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:06PM (#29407018)
I ran a BBS using DESQview on an 80286 with a Rampage memory card. It connected nightly to the Fido BBS "Southern Star". Very cool stuff for the time.

DESQview was a huge help maintaining the board while it was actually running, and especially for the nightly tasks.

edit: I should add, the BBS software was Maximus.

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