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Credits
URIT BBS is a modern reimplementation inspired by T.A.G.-BBS v1.03, originally written by Patrick E. Hughes in 1986-87 for the Commodore Amiga.
The original T.A.G.-BBS was a single-user, dial-up bulletin board system that ran on AmigaOS, communicating with callers over a serial modem connection. It featured message boards, private mail, file libraries, bulletins, and an integrated line editor — all in roughly 6,000 lines of C.
URIT BBS carries the spirit of that software forward into the modern era, replacing the Amiga serial port with TCP/IP (telnet and SSH), flat binary data files with SQLite, and the single-caller limitation with multi-user support.
Special Thanks
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Patrick E. Hughes — Original author of T.A.G.-BBS. The clean architecture of the original code, particularly its clear separation between I/O and application logic, made this reimplementation possible and informed much of URIT's design.
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All the sysops, users, and developers who built and sustained the BBS community through the dial-up era and continue to keep it alive today.