Subj : Re: BBS'ing
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Zero Reader
Date : Sat Jun 04 2022 07:02 pm

On 04 Jun 2022, Rob Swindell said the following...
 
 RS> More than "influenced": Renegade, Telegard, TAG and many other BBS
 RS> programs of the era are actual hacks/rip-offs of the WWIV v3 Pascal
 RS> source code. -- 

I'm curious what parts of WWIV they ended up using, because from an end-user view, those packages seem very different from WWIV. I never used WWIV when it was written in Pascal -- so I don't know how different it was from the C version -- which I am very familiar with.

I think it's only been fairly recently that WWIV has created a menu editing system along the lines of RG/TG.

I really find the history and evolution of these packages interesting.

-Andrew Haworth

.... Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/04/26 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: alcoholidaybbs.com / Est. 1995 / Columbia, SC (1:123/525)

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