BBS software for the PDP 11

Kirk Davis kirkbdavis at me.com
Wed May 17 23:53:08 CDT 2017


There were 2 Unix BBS programs that I played with back in the 80s. One of them I think was called XBBS. The other one which was a lot better was called Waffle (89 timeframe). Waffle was a lot more configurable and snazzier and ran well on SysV (and others). XBBS was targeted for Xenix, was older & may run better on older hardware but would require some porting.

Kirk

> On May 17, 2017, at 8:58 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On May 17, 2017, at 5:45 PM, devin davison via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> I have both a pdp 11/34 and 11/23 and am trying to find some bbs software
>> to run. Preferably something that will run under an os and not monopolize
>> the whole machine.
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>> Any suggestions? i have not had much luck finding anything.
>> 
>> --Devin
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> There may be something for RSTS/E.  That seems like the OS most likely to have such software.  You might also find some old UNIX source code that might compile on BSD2.11.
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> Zane
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