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QSO was released to allow users to use the popular QWK message format for offline mail reading.

TIMS was released to allow interaction with FidoNet technology.

TDBS (The Data Base System) was a dBase3 compatible compiled language that supported creation of multiline applications and games without having to exit the TBBS environment via batchfiles (or dropfiles) making it more stable than its competitors.

Many software companies, like Microsoft, and most computer hardware companies all around the world relied on TBBS for their online technical support and file download services until Internet web and FTP sites replaced the need for a direct dial BBS presence in the mid 1990s.Īdd-On "Option Modules" were used to internally extend the TBBS feature set.

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At its height in 1996, TBBS could support more simultaneous users at full speed on less hardware than any competing BBS product.

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For those wishing to run more lines, multiport serial boards from a company called Digiboard were used to allow up to 96 modems to be hooked into the one machine. For those wishing to run two lines, no additional hardware was needed - you only needed to use COM1 and COM2. TBBS achieved multiple lines all on the one machine. Other BBS software packages could only achieve simultaneous user access by either running their software on LAN systems, dedicating one complete machine per modem, or under multitasking software such as Quarterdeck's DESQview. In 1988, he added a custom multitasking kernel that allowed multiple callers to access the TBBS system at the same time. Other BBS packages at the time had their menu structures hard coded.Īs time progressed, Phil completely re-wrote the TBBS program in assembler to operate on IBM PCs running under DOS. Its advantage was that it could be fully customized by the system operator, so that no two TBBS systems looked the same. TBBS started out in 1983 as a single line Bulletin Board System (BBS) originally written for RadioShack TRS-80 machines, and was later ported to IBM-PC computers. The name was chosen because it drew parallels between an electronics " breadboard" (where the basis for any circuit can be built). This was different because "BBS" was most commonly used to stand for Bulletin Board System.

TBBS is an abbreviation for The Bread Board System, although this explanation was buried in the documentation.