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DEMO: Bulletrom-OS/2 BBS demo released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Brown)
Sat Feb 10 07:27:19 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 9 Feb 1996 23:08:14 GMT
From: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown)
Reply-To: buletron@vnet.net
Submitted by: Andy Tornquist
Source: buletron@vnet.net
Date sent: 1996 02 08
Date posted: 1996 02 09
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Bulletron is the simplest and most powerful OS/2 BBS in the world. Expandable
and flexible enough to meet the needs of the largest corporation, yet simple
enough to be mastered by non-technical people in less than an hour.
Key Features Include:
- Operate any number of lines within a *single* OS/2 session. You don't need
to open a session per phone line.
- No limit to the number os user accounts.
- No limit to the number of personal and public messages.
- Can service 2,000 concurrent users with one PC; 446,000 concurrent users per
installation using LAN technology.
- Up to 32,000 sub-boards can be defined.
- Over 32,000 access levels and unlimited special interest groups can be
defined for controlling access to sensitive information.
- Extremely rapid access to any information in the system is provided through
a balanced binary tree filing systems.
- Inter-office e-mail and news can be transmitted over exisiting LAN wiring or
Internet using TCP/IP and named pipes protocols.
- Sinple, single layer menus display all new message and file since last logon
in all message areas.
- Conferencing message areas allow people to add comments on news messages for
group discussion.
- Users can automatically generate Carbon Copies to groups of users.
- Order entry facility processes VISA, American Express, Master Card and
Discover Order forms with Validity checking.
- FAXback feature allows users to have graphic documents sent to any FAX
machine or FAX modem.
- DOOR interfaces are provided, for executing other programs remotely or
accessing mainframe databases.
- Systems in different parts of the country can be connected using propietary
Bulletnet(TM) technology so that mail and news bulletins posted in one city
automatically appear at all location overnight.
- Systems in different parts of the country can have their Chat areas
connected together.
- Matchmaker database can attach questionnaires to user accounts and messages.
Questionnaires can be attached to user accounts to implement a technical
support human resource database.
- All menus, help messages, and prompts are changeable by the system operator
for complete customization or for foreign language systems.
- An operator at the local console can monitor up to ten sessions
simultaneously to provide help for new users.
- Remote new account setup can be disable and accounts can be preloaded from
an external file such as registration numbers.
- Onsite setup, training and custom programming available.
The demo copy comes with all the features and the complete manual.
Remember, you need to have OS/2 installed in order to try Bulletron.
Demo available by FTP: ftp://online-tech.com/pub/bulletron/bullet.zip
Contact: Andy Tornquist, Online Technologies
Email: buletron@vnet.net Voice: (516) 689-2457 Fax: (516) 689-0167
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