- Falken
"For the tire brand, see
Falken Tires ."Originally created by
Herb Rose , Falken BBS was one of the few BBS products which allowed up to 128 users to dial in to a single system (runningDOS ) usingmultiport hardware , requiring no externalmultitasker . The product was far advanced from the large number of other BBS systems available at the time allowing users to interact in onlineteleconference s andmultiplayer games.Herb's company
Info*share struggled to market this product against the already well establishedMajor BBS product developed byGalacticomm . The product enjoyed moderate success but eventually Herb relented and sold the product toChris Whitacre ofCalifornia who continued to develop the product on theLinux platform, finally discontinuing the original DOS based product.Ironically, in
2001 , Falken was again sold toMichael Polzin ofWilderLand Software , one of the companies which actively supported the competitive Major BBS product as an independent software vendor.External links
* [http://www.wilderlandsoftware.com WilderLand Software]
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