MBBS was a popular BBS system in the Nordic countries during the mid-1990s. It was created by a team of Oslo-based enthusiasts, led by Mike Robertson. As many BBS system of that era, it was only available for the DOS platform. Since one process could only handle one node, multitaskers such as DESQview or Microsoft Windows were necessary in order to run multi-node BBSes. MBBS had to use the only viable means of interprocess communication under DOS, namely to read and write to a set of files in a common subdirectory. Since these files were accessed very often, many sysops moved them to a RAM disk. A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. ... County Oslo NO-03 Landscape Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² 426 km² 0. ... Mike Robertson (born August 19, 1950 in Londonderry) is a Norwegian programmer known for his bulletin board system (BBS) software MBBS. He moved to Norway in 1971, and started his own company in 1982, Gallagher & Robertson, a software house specializing in communications. ... The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ... DESQview was a text mode multitasking program developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Microsoft Windows is a series of operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ... A RAM-Disk, Ramdisk or Ramdrive is a virtual SSD Solid_state_disk in segment of active computer memory, RAM, which is being used as secondary storage, typically a role for a disk drive. ...

MBBS's user interface was a command line where commands could be "stacked". This means that instead of typing a command, being asked to supply some parameters, and then typing another command, one could type them on one command line separated by a space or semicolon. An example is m sa g y, which expands to "marks, save message pointers, goodbye, yes". This user interface was copied in Kim Heino's later BBBS system, to the degree that most valid MBBS command strings do the same in BBBS. The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...

MBBS was released as uncrippled shareware by Gallagher & Robertson. It is now discontinued, and its final version, 10.4, was released in 1996. Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed in advance and without payment, as is common for proprietary software. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Alternate meaning

• M.B.B.S. also stands for "Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery", the degree given to doctors in countries following British tradition. See Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery.*
• MBBS also stands for Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary