YAWC
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Yet Another Wersion of Citadel (YAWC) BBS
is a variant of Dave's own version of Citadel
(DOC) that was developed to run under Linux
. The project was started in 1994 By Kenneth Haglund (aka/username KHaglund) a student from Vaasa
in Finland. The YAWC code base was developed actively by a handful of students around the world, with features regularly integrated into the official source and released to those students who chose to provide BBS services.
Most BBS systems running YAWC code were 486
or first-generation Pentium
machines capable of supporting 20-30 simultaneous telnet
users. In an attempt to reduce the CPU load on the BBS host and remove the latency issues associated with sending small amounts of text over slow connections, several clients were developed, including the CLient and winCLient, so named to distinguish the YAWC CLient from DOC and other clients.
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...
is a variant of Dave's own version of Citadel
Dave's own version of Citadel
Dave's own version of Citadel is a variant of the Citadel/UX Bulletin board system software which was developed specifically to run ISCA BBS in the late 1980s. It is based on Citadel/UX 3.0 but very heavily modified to suit the specific needs of ISCA BBS, which at its peak was a massive system...
(DOC) that was developed to run under Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
. The project was started in 1994 By Kenneth Haglund (aka/username KHaglund) a student from Vaasa
Vaasa
Vaasa is a city on the west coast of Finland. It received its charter in 1606, during the reign of Charles IX of Sweden and is named after the Royal House of Vasa...
in Finland. The YAWC code base was developed actively by a handful of students around the world, with features regularly integrated into the official source and released to those students who chose to provide BBS services.
Most BBS systems running YAWC code were 486
Intel 80486
The Intel 80486 microprocessor was a higher performance follow up on the Intel 80386. Introduced in 1989, it was the first tightly pipelined x86 design as well as the first x86 chip to use more than a million transistors, due to a large on-chip cache and an integrated floating point unit...
or first-generation Pentium
Pentium
The original Pentium microprocessor was introduced on March 22, 1993. Its microarchitecture, deemed P5, was Intel's fifth-generation and first superscalar x86 microarchitecture. As a direct extension of the 80486 architecture, it included dual integer pipelines, a faster FPU, wider data bus,...
machines capable of supporting 20-30 simultaneous telnet
TELNET
Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communications facility using a virtual terminal connection...
users. In an attempt to reduce the CPU load on the BBS host and remove the latency issues associated with sending small amounts of text over slow connections, several clients were developed, including the CLient and winCLient, so named to distinguish the YAWC CLient from DOC and other clients.