UNaXcess
Encyclopedia
UnaXcess is a bulletin board system
originally started at Bradford University by Brandon S. Allbery in 1984. During the early 1990s it moved to the University of Manchester
and was used for several years, mostly by members of the Computer Science department.
Around about 1998, work started on a re-write of the code base overhaul the current system whilst keeping the quirky aspects that many users had grown to know and love (such as pressing 'G' to quit). By September 1999, the new system was ready to be rolled out.
Today the system is known as UA2 to most people and is mainly haunted by current and ex students from the University of Manchester Computer Science department and members of its computer society, CompSoc. As well as the familiar telnet interface, there is also a web-based version of the client (uaHTTP) that is more friendly to beginners.
The code for UNaXcess (client and server) is available for free download.
subsystem look and feel was eventually used by Neil Robertson in 1992 as the basis for a university project called "TalkServ", in which he created his own talker system, later renaming it "Neil's Unix Talk Server" or NUTS
for short. This code base eventually eclipsed ew-too
as the most popular talker base in the history of talkers.
Bulletin board system
A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...
originally started at Bradford University by Brandon S. Allbery in 1984. During the early 1990s it moved to the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
and was used for several years, mostly by members of the Computer Science department.
Around about 1998, work started on a re-write of the code base overhaul the current system whilst keeping the quirky aspects that many users had grown to know and love (such as pressing 'G' to quit). By September 1999, the new system was ready to be rolled out.
Today the system is known as UA2 to most people and is mainly haunted by current and ex students from the University of Manchester Computer Science department and members of its computer society, CompSoc. As well as the familiar telnet interface, there is also a web-based version of the client (uaHTTP) that is more friendly to beginners.
The code for UNaXcess (client and server) is available for free download.
Talker
The talkerTalker
A talker is a chat system that people use to talk to each other over the Internet. Dating back to the 1980s, they were a predecessor of instant messaging....
subsystem look and feel was eventually used by Neil Robertson in 1992 as the basis for a university project called "TalkServ", in which he created his own talker system, later renaming it "Neil's Unix Talk Server" or NUTS
Nuts (Talker)
NUTS, or Neil's Unix Talk Server is a talker base written in C programming language by Neil Robertson, and got the status as the best-known talker base by 1996, surpassing ew-too....
for short. This code base eventually eclipsed ew-too
Ew-too
ew-too, short for Elsewhere Too, was the first publicly available code base for Internet talkers and was written by Simon "Burble" Marsh in 1992, following the demise of the second internet talker, Cheeseplant's House, which had been closed down some months earlier. It was based on the LPMud game...
as the most popular talker base in the history of talkers.