>> Not much point in advertising your system if it won't let new users apply. Private BBS's should remain unlisted. <<
If I am not mistaken,"quadra.net" is the name Marcella Auer (formerly Marcella Zimmerman) used in reference to a Macintosh-based ISP, which at one point, was an experiment with TeleFinder (Candystore BBS) and Vicom Internet Gateway. I have no idea what it's current configuration is. Half the time I thought I was chatting with Marcella, I was actually chatting with someone else under her ID. I think the person was Glen (I do not know his last name).
I have not heard much from them after getting into a heated debate about implementing features with the intent of increasing the security of the BBS so that untrusted employees could be left with it. There was apparently some problems already with these employes and the maintenance of user accounts that Marcella/Glen thought would be solved by placing a password or lock-out on the User Manager program. Of course real system security requires much more than this.
My viewpoint was that off-the shelf software could provide the same measure of access control to the administrative CPU as would a password on the program, but the real long-term solution requires changes in the Macintosh operating system to support this, rather than changes to BBS application software, which do not really secure the CPU from other, more determined threats.
--- Summarising BYTE magazine's results:
a 117MHz PowerPC processor outperforms a 200Mhz Pentium system by 5%. a 200Mhz 603e processor as used in the Apple Performa (home user systems) outperforms a Pentium 200Mhz by 80%. a 200Mhz 603e processor outperforms a Pentium Pro 200Mhz by 40%. a 200Mhz PowerPC 604e processor outperforms a Pentium 200Mhz system by 125% and a Pentium Pro 200Mhz system by 80%.
Nuff Said...
Daniel O'Leary, Sysop KloneZone Mac - A TeleFinder 5.5 Mac/Windows BBS (817)367-2558 (Voice) (817)367-2712 (Dial-in) 1:130/1015 (Fido) klonezone.tfnet.org (TFNet) kzpwrmac.cyberhighway.net (Internet) http://kzpwrmac.cyberhighway.net (WWW)
