Waffle is a

bulletin-board system A bulletin board system (BBS), also called computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as ...

created by Tom Dell for the Dark Side of the Moon BBS which ran under DOS and later UNIX. The software was unique among DOS BBS software in many ways, including the fact that all of the configuration files were in readable text files, and that it fully supported Usenet and UUCP on the DOS platform. A Usenet news group name
comp.bbs.waffle
was created for discussion of the Waffle BBS System. Waffle was first released in 1989. The last version seems to be v1.65. There was a beta version of 1.66 on the main site, but it was never released. It was possible to link Waffle (under DOS) to Fidonet and WWIV using external gateway utilities.

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comp.bbs.waffle FAQMore historyPyffle BBS - a Waffle clone written in Python that runs on modern systems
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