Subj : TBBS
To : Nick Andre
From : Darryl Perry
Date : Tue May 10 2016 08:15 am
On 05/09/16, Nick Andre said the following...
NA> In case anyone is curious, although the www.tbbs.org fansite is still
NA> running, it is notorious for going off-line randomly, for sometimes
NA> months at a time.
NA>
NA> I have archived all of the files from that site, including full
NA> installations of TBBS, TIMS, Flame, etc.
NA>
NA> TBBS at one time was "the" software for running a commercial BBS; and
NA> was only one of two packages I know of, that internally multi-tasked up
NA> to 96 nodes on a single computer without using a multi-tasking operating
NA> system. The other I think was MajorBBS/Worldgroup? Sean am I right?
I think you are right about that. Galacticomm and eSoft were major
competitors. I remember an issue of BoardWatch that featured a whole article
about a speed test that Phil Becker conducted between eSoft's TBBS and
Galacticomm's MajorBBS. They tested a full 96 nodes of each and found that
TBBS outshined MBBS.
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