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   Gleb Hlebov to Kurt Weiske   
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   14 Dec 23 13:05:40   
   
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   PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 3.0 20231203   
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   Hi!   
      
   On 12.12.2023 16:31:00, Kurt Weiske wrote:   
      
   > Warp 4, 486 DX/50. I was a Novell admin at the time, and all of the   
   > utilities were DOS Curses-based tools. I could run 4 of 5 of them   
   > Simultaneously in OS/2, no problem.   
   > We had a dial-in tool that allowed serial port sharing via int14h.   
   > Procomm Plus supported that, so I used that to dial into my PBXes to   
   > manage them without a local modem.   
   > And, of course, once, I connected to all 4 modem lines and called 4   
   > BBSes simultaneously, because I could.   :)   
      
   Too much advanced tech here :-)   
   I can only recall that my fidonet boss had a BBS under OS/2 W.3 at the   
   time, it was multi-line too and would operate "unmanned" for months.   
      
      
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