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A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.
RBBS-PC, ported over from the CP / M world, and Fido BBS, created by Tom Jennings ( who later founded FidoNet ) were the first notable DOS BBS programs.
There were many successful commercial BBS programs developed for DOS, such as PCBoard BBS, RemoteAccess BBS, and Wildcat!
BBS which had early roots from the Colossus BBS started by the author of the popular shareware communications program Qmodem.
Some popular freeware BBS programs for MS-DOS included Telegard BBS and Renegade BBS, which both had early origins from leaked WWIV BBS source code.
There were several dozen other BBS programs developed over the DOS era, and many were released under the shareware concept, while some were released as freeware including iniquity.

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