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This release finally focused on an active HTML web community, after three years of concentrating on the original client–server strategy.
#MEGAMUD USING INVENTORY SOFTWARE#
The MBBS software was renamed Worldgroup Server, and released in 1995 with the version number restarting at 1.0 the included user-side client software was named Worldgroup Manager (but sometimes known as Worldgroup Client) and ran in Microsoft Windows.Īs version 3.0 in 1997, the first 32-bit version of Worldgroup Server was released for Windows NT, and other versions were simultaneously continued. Seeking to compete with America Online, Galacticomm extended The Major BBS software to communicate in a client–server model with a custom program. In 1992, the Major BBS was selected by the National Library of Medicine as the access mechanism for the Grateful Med medical journal system, just prior to universal access via the World Wide Web. In the mid-1990s, the offering expanded to include TCP/IP by the ISV Vircom, a Canadian company that has since become well known for its anti-spam/anti-virus software, shortly followed by Galacticomm's own TCP/IP add-on, the Internet Connection Option (ICO), which was derived from another ISV's offering.
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The Major BBS allowed incoming connections via modems on telephone lines, IPX networks, and X.25 packet-switched networks. This flexibility spawned a small industry of Independent Software Vendors (ISV) who began developing MBBS add-ons, which ranged from shopping malls (what would now be called shopping cart software) to online role playing games. The GSBL continued to be enhanced, expanding to 64 users by 1988, then 256 by 1992, with The Major BBS's line capacity expanding as a result.īecause it was one of the few multi-line bulletin board systems, MBBS software was known for fostering online communities and an interactive online experience where users were able to interact with each other via Teleconference ( chat rooms) and multiplayer games. By late 1987, Galacticomm was licensing more copies of The Major BBS than the GSBL by itself. Eventually, The Major BBS was enhanced enough that it became a marketable product in its own right.
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The GSBL was licensed to developers for varied uses, such as communications systems, bank systems, and real estate systems.
#MEGAMUD USING INVENTORY PC#
Because interrupts were not used, there were no issues relating to interrupt conflicts on PC hardware of the day.
#MEGAMUD USING INVENTORY SERIAL#
The "breakthrough" was that the library polled the serial ports, rather than allowing them to interrupt the processor, which was the against the accepted wisdom of the time, and through use of polling and making use of the FIFO buffers that were by this time standard on UART chips, an - at the time - unheard of number of serial ports could be attached to a PC. The GSBL was a powerful set of assembler routines written for IBM and compatible PCs that allowed up to 32 simultaneous serial port or dialup connections to a single software instance without the need for an external multitasker. The Major BBS was developed by Tim Stryker and launched in 1986 by Stryker's company, Galacticomm, Inc., as a demonstration of the abilities of the Galacticomm Software Breakthrough Library (or GSBL).