Subj : exactly the same except totally different
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Nov 23 2017 03:26:43

Hey Sean!

 SD> The author of ProBoard BBS is releasing his source code as open
 SD> source

That happened with Maximus about a decade and a half ago.  MBSE started out 
that way but I am not sure when but seems to me it was well over a decade ago.  
Not sure if either is all that well supported today.  I did manage to compile a 
64 bit version of MBSE but never ran it beyond just a local test.  I might have 
been the first to have a pure 64 bit BBS 'working'.

Speaking for myself I am more interested in specific apps such as echomail 
which really doesn't require a traditional BBS to make work.  I've been doing 
this for quite some time now, easily a couple of decades, and haven't needed to 
port it from it's humble bash scripted state of being.  64 bit according to the 
tagline below.  Also has been the best at utf-8 support fidonet has ever seen 
and of course was first to post utf-8 in any Fidonet echoarea.  Nothing 
anywhere, in any bitness, does it better.  I suspect it will always be that way 
given the current and past state of affairs in Fidonet.

A Møøse once (64) bit my sister ...  :::evil grin:::

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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