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OS/2 was the bomb to run a multi-node BBS on a single machine. It could multitask DOS applications fantastically and reliably. Worked better for us than a multi-machine Novell-based network and more reliably than using desqview. A 486 with 12 MB ram could comfortably run 3 nodes plus an admin console when needed. We used Renegade and then Wildcat. Fun times.

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It was also great for a single-node BBS. A friend only had one PC and couldn't do anything while his BBS was up so I recommended OS/2 to him. It worked great. I suppose he probably still had to take his BBS down to dial out to other BBSes.

I remember reading about running a BBS under OS/2. By the time I ran my own BBS, I was able to just run it on Windows 95/98, minimized.

It drove my Dad nuts to constantly have it in the taskbar, so so bought me an older computer to run mine. I think I ran it under Windows 3.1 so I could log in without needing to take it offline. I ran it that way until the summer of 1999 when I went to college. (And by that time very few people called dial-ups.)

Which BBS were you running?

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