TriBBS is a computer
bulletin board system
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as ...
(BBS) designed for
MS-DOS-based computers.
History
TriBBS was written by
Mark Goodwin and marketed through his company,
TriSoft. TriBBS was written in C++ and assembly language. TriBBS development was guided primarily by the requests and suggestions of the
SysOps who used the program. As a result, the TriBBS Application Program Interface was added by Goodwin to aid other software developers in making
third party software operate seamlessly with TriBBS.
In 1997, TriBBS was sold to
Gary Price of
Freejack's Software
who had previously developed a collection of
add-ons and tools for use with TriBBS. Apart from a handful of small feature additions, the most significant contribution Price made was making TriBBS
Y2K-compliant.
In 2000, TriBBS was sold again, this time to
Frank Prue
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of
PTC Software
Shortly after the acquisition, PTC Software announced via the alt.bbs.tribbs
newsgroup that they intended to release a
32-bit
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version of TriBBS. It has never been released.
Current status
The latest version of TriBBS v11.6 was released 23 March 2002.
External links
Marc Brooks' TriBBS 10.x/11.x Software
Bulletin board system software
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