Waffle is a

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 ...

created by Tom Dell for the Dark Side of the Moon BBS which ran under

DOS DOS is shorthand for the MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS family of operating systems. DOS may also refer to: Computing * Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel * Denial-of-service attack (DoS), an attack on a communicat ...

and later

UNIX Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, an ...

. The

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was unique among DOS BBS software in many ways, including the fact that all of the configuration files were in readable text files, and that it fully supported

Usenet Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was ...

and

UUCP UUCP is an acronym of Unix-to-Unix Copy. The term generally refers to a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers. A command named is one of the pr ...

on the DOS platform. A

news group name
comp.bbs.waffle
was created for discussion of the Waffle BBS System. Waffle was first released in 1989. The last version seems to be v1.65. There was a beta version of 1.66 on the main site, but it was never released. It was possible to link Waffle (under DOS) to Fidonet and

WWIV WWIV was a popular brand of bulletin board system software from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. The modifiable source code allowed a sysop to customize the main BBS program for their particular needs and aesthetics. WWIV also allowed te ...

using external gateway utilities.

References

External links

comp.bbs.waffle FAQMore historyPyffle BBS - a Waffle clone written in Python that runs on modern systems
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