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- About This BBS Chester H. Lin
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- Mackey Mouse is a private/limited public BBS (Bulletin Board System).
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- BBS is a place for computer users to share ideas, to exchange information,
- and to make friends. This kind of system has enjoyed enormous proliferation
- since the introduction of low-priced personal computers and modems.
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- In fact, there are many kinds of BBS programs for both PC and Macintosh.
- For example, we have RBBS, FidoNet, GT, QuickBBS. Then why a new one? I have
- only one explanation. I enjoy programming. Creating something from scratch is
- a wonderful experience for me. Another good reason for this is that I want to
- offer a rather complete system to computer hobbyists so that they can set up a
- personal BBS. They can modify the program to suit their needs since I will
- distribute this program with source code in the future.
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- This system is actually run by a script language called SALT (Script
- Application Language for Telix). Telix is a communication program on IBM PC
- and compatibles. Telix is distributed with some sample programs written in
- SALT. One of them is HOST. HOST lets a remote caller have access to files and
- data in a primitive way. I modified HOST a lot to make it a general-purpose
- BBS program. Most of the functions you see here are not new for an experienced
- BBS user, though.
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- And I call this BBS program HOSTBBS.
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- I want to thank the following special persons who have helped me a lot in
- setting up this private BBS.
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- James Thomas
- Hau-yang Wang
- Eddie Yu
- Derek Zorn
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- Oct. 15, 1989
- Chester Lin