<< HERE'S WHERE YOU SHOULD PUT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR CONFIGURATION >>

For example...

Hardware Configuration
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This system runs on a standard AT-compatible.  The key piece of equipment
that makes it possible is the Galacticomm GalactiBox: a chassis for up to 16
standard internal PC modem cards, serial cards, etc.  Our equipment mix is
always changing, though, so on a particular call you might be logged into a
Supra 14,400bps (V.32/V.32bis), an MICC 9600bps (V.32), or a U.S. Robotics
Dual Standard (3/12/24/9600 bps, V.32 or HST).

Our particular system configuration happens to be a 33MHz 486 with 8
megs of RAM connected to our Novell LAN, although any standard 286-based
(or better) AT-compatible with at least 2 megs of RAM will run The Major
BBS.  We also have two 150MB ESDI hard disks, and a 25" Sony Trinitron
Monitor.

The connections to the phone lines are accomplished by means of ordinary
RJ-11 cables... one cable and one modem per phone line.  Our lines are all
"hunt-grouped", so that all lines are accessible at a single phone number.


Software Configuration
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This software is running under standard MS-DOS V4.0.  The key software
package that makes it possible is the GALACTICOMM SOFTWARE BREAKTHROUGH, a
linkable object library containing 42 routines that take care of most of the
real nitty-gritty of putting together a system like this.  In fact, the
BREAKTHROUGH library contains considerably more flexibility than is needed,
since several of the routines are not even needed to implement this system.

Tim Stryker and colleagues have written all of the software you are using
here: the BREAKTHROUGH library, the BBS shell, and all of its submodules.
Parts of it are written in Intel 8086/8 Macroassembler, and parts in Borland
C++ V3.1.  This BBS package, called The Major BBS, serves as a "software
backplane" for current development in a wide variety of areas.  A two-user
copy of The Major BBS, suitable for use with Galacticomm, Hayes, or U.S.
Robotics modems, is available for $259 from Galacticomm Inc., 4101 SW 47th
Ave., Suite 101, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33314.

Other software we use: Btrieve, a database record manager available from
Novell, Inc., and KEDIT, a great text editor developed by The Mansfield
Software Group.  Neither package is required to run The Major BBS.
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