Two Stop Bits | Me too. When Thomas first announced it for the Atari machines, I thought it wou...

ddingus 5 days ago | parent

Me too. When Thomas first announced it for the Atari machines, I thought it would not spread that well because the Atari build made extensive use of the Atari SIO system.

Basically, it is device independent I/O, which was spiffy back in the day, and it meant that a ton of old software would just work via FujiNET.

Neat, but very Atari only.

Then Thomas just started porting and finding ways on other machines!

Another nice thing is FujiNET can get people onto Irata, the PLATO reboot Thomas also worked on.

And I have not had the time to explore that system, but it sure looks neato!

bmonkey325 4 days ago
Fun fact about Plato on the Atari. The deeper you went the darker the background colors got and the lighter the foreground text became.
reply
- ddingus 4 days ago
  That is pretty neat! Are you talking about the PLATO cartridge software?
  reply
  - bmonkey325 3 days ago
    That was my understanding. It’s a shame that Plato didn’t become mass market. Imagine a timeline where AOL wasn’t the Internet for most people
    reply
    - ddingus 1 day ago
      Yeah. I would have used the crap out of that system.
      It looks really neat!
      Instead, I was BBS'Ing and eventually online proper in 91, using gateway systems prior.
      And of course USENET was where the action was!
      reply