Information about Bnu
BNU is a high-performance communications driver that supports most DOS-based BBS software.
BNU was written as an experimental driver for serial communications, then being made FOSSIL compatible, and was released to the public in 1989. BNU was one of only two or three available FOSSIL drivers for the IBM PC compatible hardware and MS/PC-DOS operating system. Because of this, BNU has been one of the most widely used MS-DOS FOSSIL communications drivers.
BNU was mainly used with DOS-based Bulletin Board System (BBS) software written in the late 1980's to mid 1990's. It is not used by Windows-based BBS software, but BNU can be used under Windows NTVDM to run DOS-based BBS software under Windows.
The name "BNU" was originally a rip-off of AT&T's "BNU UUCP", and in that context meant "Basic Networking Utilities". The author of BNU, David Nugent, felt that the acronym was particularly apt for BNU's function.
The BNUFAQ used to be posted in the Fidonet BNU support echo by the author. This saved text file is the last official posting of this FAQ by David Nugent, BNU's author.
A device driver, or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a computer hardware device.
A driver typically communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware is
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DOS (from Disk Operating System) commonly refers to the family of closely related operating systems which dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995 (or until about 2000, if Windows 9x systems are included): DR-DOS, FreeDOS, MS-DOS, Novell-DOS, OpenDOS, PC-DOS,
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Bulletin board system, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line (or Telnet) and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, reading news, and exchanging
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- For other uses of the term, see Fossil (disambiguation)
FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system.
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IBM PC-DOS was a Disk Operating System for the IBM Personal Computer. The original 1981 arrangement between IBM and Microsoft was that Microsoft would provide the base product and that both firms would work on developing different parts of it into a more powerful and robust
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MS-DOS (short for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the dominant operating system for the PC compatible
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Bulletin board system, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line (or Telnet) and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, reading news, and exchanging
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Virtual DOS machine (VDM) is the name of Microsoft's technology allowing to run MS-DOS programs on Intel 80386 or higher computers when there is already another operating system running and controlling the hardware.
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