Hey Sean!   
      
    SD> The author of ProBoard BBS is releasing his source code as open   
    SD> source   
      
   That happened with Maximus about a decade and a half ago.  MBSE started out   
   that way but I am not sure when but seems to me it was well over a decade   
   ago.  Not sure if either is all that well supported today.  I did manage to   
   compile a 64 bit version of MBSE but never ran it beyond just a local test.  I   
   might have been the first to have a pure 64 bit BBS 'working'.   
      
   Speaking for myself I am more interested in specific apps such as echomail   
   which really doesn't require a traditional BBS to make work.  I've been doing   
   this for quite some time now, easily a couple of decades, and haven't needed   
   to port it from it's humble bash scripted state of being.  64 bit according to   
   the tagline below.  Also has been the best at utf-8 support fidonet has ever   
   seen and of course was first to post utf-8 in any Fidonet echoarea.  Nothing   
   anywhere, in any bitness, does it better.  I suspect it will always be that   
   way given the current and past state of affairs in Fidonet.   
      
   A Møøse once (64) bit my sister ...  :::evil grin:::   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Don't cry for me I have vi.   
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