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  • Re: New BBS Tech

    From Smooth@46:1/183 to Nightfox on Sun Jun 4 11:26:00 2017
    On 06/02/17, Nightfox inked down this thought...
    A JSON dropfile would be slick too -- and I've love to see people sto doing socket fd sharing (e.g. door32.sys) as it too much relies on th *door* doing socket I/O which IMO it would be abstracted from.
    Back in the day, FOSSIL drivers were made so that doors could be written

    It's the sign of the times. JSON has more to do with data vs communication. It'll make it easier to share telnet data with web or otherwise. It'll make
    it more universal. As far as FOSSIL drivers. I find that they're just there to support older technology that don't have proficient COM support. That too will change as newer doors and telnet utility software are geared for 2017+
    and not 1990s. We can't stop progression. Otherwise the only systems that we'll be able to support our BBSes going forward will be retro ones.

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  • From ispyhumanfly@46:1/140 to Nightfox on Thu Mar 15 14:32:28 2018
    $ Nightfox was quoted saying . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    A JSON dropfile would be slick too -- and I've love to see people stop doing socket fd sharing (e.g. door32.sys) as it too much relies on the *door* doing socket I/O which IMO it would be abstracted from.

    Back in the day, FOSSIL drivers were made so that doors could be written
    to a standard interface to communicate with COM ports so they could be abstracted away from the technical details of each COM port
    implementation.. Seems funny that now we would want a new abstraction..
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I mean, it makes sense honestly. We've developed static data storage concepts and unified them across industries since the advent of the FOSSIL driver, drop files, all of that...

    I'm thinking that with BBS softwares adopting some of these more common strategies makes the barrier for entry smaller for would-be sysops perhaps
    more familiar with modern archtectures.

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