Wildcat! BBS

Wildcat! BBS

Wildcat! is a bulletin board system (BBS) software package developed in 1986 by Mustang Software to create a dial-up BBS operating under DOS. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows. By the release of Version 4 it was the basis for over 50,000 bulletin boards worldwide.Fact|date=February 2007

The product was later expanded to integrate Internet access under the name WINServer (Wildcat! Interactive Net Server). Mustang sold "Wildcat!" to Santronics Software, Inc. on November 19 1998. [cite news | title = Mustang Software Announces Sale of Wildcat! BBS Product Lines to Santronics Software, Inc. | date = 1998-11-19 | accessdate = 2005-04-17 | url = http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/WILDCAT/wildcat.sale ] Santronics had been an active third-party developer for the Wildcat! product lines since 1991.

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External links

* [http://www.santronics.com/ Santronics Software]


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