RE: News from COMMON?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It took three refreshes of the screen to get the icons.  Could just be
> server load, I don't know.  It's running WorldGroup software (the old Major
> BBS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_BBS) on Windows.

Are you kidding me?  Back in the early 90's, I did a lot of work with 
Worldgroup.  What a blast from the past.

MajorBBS was really designed for the days when operating system's didn't 
have multitasking.  It enabled a form of cooperative multitasking running 
under MS-DOS.  Used Btrieve databases.  In the early versions, you had to 
link all of the "modules" you purchased together into one big program 
before you could run it!  Later they supported DLLs so the modules didn't 
all have to be linked ahead of time.  Still... it was basically one big 
program, if one module crashes, it brings the whole system down.

They aren't SERIOUSLY planning on running something on WorldGroup in 
today's world, are they?  They'd be better off running it on a System/34. 
At least it had true multitasking and was able to run independent 
programs!