RBBS-PC ( acronym for Remote Bulletin Board System for the Personal Computer ) was a public domain, open source BBS software program.

The first major release of this effort, RBBS-PC CPC09, in May 1983 was written in interpreted BASIC and included the Xmodem file transfer protocol added by Jordan.

The program was released as " freeware " as an add-on module ( or " Door ") for the popular RBBS-PC.

It has been shown that a monolithic Linux server ported to L4 exhibits only a few percent overhead over native Linux.

The Multics version was ported to the GE-600 system used at Bell Labs in the late 1960s under GECOS and later GCOS after Honeywell took over GE's computer business.

Other extras are ported over from Paramount's 2001 DVD release.

While typically used for ski resorts, aerial tramways have been ported over for usage in the urban environment in recent times.

Buildings from the newly deactivated Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, were ported over to form the core of the new colony.

The extended 8 KB version was then generalized into BASIC-80 ( 8080 / 85, Z80 ), and ported into BASIC-68 ( 6800 ), BASIC-69 ( 6809 ), and MOS Technology 6502-BASIC ( unfortunately spilling over to 9 KB, in an era when 8 KB ROM chips were standard ), as well as the 16-bit BASIC-86 ( 8086 / 88 ).

A Link to the Past has sold over 4 million units world wide and has been ported to both the Game Boy Advance ( with slight changes ) and the Wii's Virtual Console.

Descent was ported to Apple's Power Macintosh in 1996 and both versions support multiplayer network play over a variety of protocols.

By the second half of the 19th century, over 100 sailing vessels were home ported in Risør and more than 1000 sailors called Risør home.

With the release of Mastercam X ( 10 ), the application became a true Windows-based application, as opposed to one ported over from DOS.

Cybermorph, which was the pack in game for the Jaguar, was also developed on the Panther and then ported over to Jaguar when Panther was scrapped.

It was eventually ported to over a dozen platforms in six languages.

As of July 2011, Creative Commons licenses have been " ported " to over 50 different jurisdictions worldwide.

To date, Silent Threat has yet to be ported over to the Amiga platform.

Among its special features were director's commentary, an interview with Zwigoff and editor Robert Hoffmann, along with other features ported over from the previous unrated version's release in addition to a showcase feature.

Due to an additional soundchip that the Disk System has, when Nintendo ported Zelda II over to the NES they had to eliminate some musical elements, especially from the title screen.

Since then, it has been ported to and / or implemented on over 30 platforms, including POSIX, the Dreamcast, Palm OS, TI 99 / 4A, the Z-machine, the Sony PSP and many more.

The models in this release were a mixture of ones directly ported over from the OJR, as well as recoloured Zoids, including the rare Ghost Zoids line.

Still, much of the technology has clearly been ported over from the GBA, creating an inconsistent feel.

It was a year later in 1995 ported over to the Sega Saturn ( by AM3 ) and PC.

Sometime in 1992, Video System's U. S. office changed its name to McO ' River, Inc., and was given the licensing rights to distribute Aero Fighters arcade machines throughout the U. S. In 1993, McO ' River was supposed to publish 3 titles of arcade games in the U. S. that were ported over to the Super Famicom in Japan.

For both the original Māori and the first English settlers, the Papatoetoe area was handily located close to the narrowest points between Auckland's two great harbours, where waka could be ported over land.

After the success of the arcade, Rob Fulop ported the game over to Atari's home system at the time, the Atari 2600, the Apple II and the Commodore 64.

Samurai has been ported over to multiple electronic platforms including PC and iOS.

AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation ( including fractional processor units ), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

MGlobal also ported their implementation to the DOS platform where it ran as a guest operating system started from DOS.

The advantage of this approach is that complex applications can be ported from one computer to a very different computer with very little effort ( for each target machine architecture, just the writing of the rudimentary macro compiler ).

Open source operating systems such as Linux have already profited from OS / 2 indirectly through IBM's release of the improved JFS file system which was ported from the OS / 2 code base.

As IBM didn't release the source of the OS / 2 JFS driver, developers ported the Linux driver back to eComStation and added the functionality to boot from a JFS partition.

Furthermore, it was based upon the Linux Standard Base ( LSB ) 3. 0, adopting technology such as the Anaconda installer ported from Red Hat, APT, and Discover.

The Gladiator bots from Quake II were ported to Quake III and incorporated into the game by their creator-Jan Paul van Waveren, aka Mr. Elusive.

Quake III Revolution was released for the PlayStation 2 ( ported by Bullfrog Productions and released by Electronic Arts ) in 2001, featuring several elements adopted from Team Arena, along with a more mission-based single-player mode.

Despite the existence of vi clones with enhanced featuresets, sometime before June, 2000, Gunnar Ritter ported Joy's vi codebase ( taken from 2. 11BSD, February, 1992 ) to modern Unix-based operating systems, such as Linux and FreeBSD.

Demonstrations of the first commercial application for X ( a mechanical computer-aided engineering system from Cognition Inc. that ran on VAXes and remotely displayed on PCs running an X server ported by Jim Fulton and Jan Hardenbergh ) took place at the Autofact trade show at that time.

* Versions of OS-9 / 68K ran on a wide variety of 68000 family platforms, including the Sharp X68000 in Japan, some personal computers intended by their designers as upgrades from the Color Computer ( e. g., the 68070 and 68340-based MM / 1, and on other computers from Frank Hogg Laboratories, PEP Modular Computers, and Delmar Co .) It was also ported to the Atari ST by Recc-o-ware in the early 1990s, and was distributed by Cumana in Europe.

The first method, called a " gas piston ," uses the high pressure gas ported from the barrel to drive an enclosed piston back against an operating rod or linkage ( they are often one piece ), which in turn unlocks the bolt and drives it rearward, ejecting the spent case and cocking the hammer or striker spring.

Here, the tube carrying the high pressure gas ported from the barrel emerges inside the action of the rifle, where it mates up with a " gas key " which is integral to the bolt carrier.

In 1988, CATIA V3 was ported from mainframe computers to UNIX.

In 1996, it was ported from one to four Unix operating systems, including IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Microsystems SunOS, and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX.

It initially ran on workstations from Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computers, but later ported its software to workstations made by Digital Equipment Corporation, HP, IBM and SGI, and later still, to the Apple Macintosh II and the IBM Personal Computer.

In particular, these University of Illinois students made two key changes to the Web browser, which hyper-boosted its appeal: they added graphics to what was otherwise boring text-based software, and, most importantly, they ported the software from so-called Unix computers that are popular only in technical and academic circles, to the Windows operating system, which is used on more than 80 percent of the computers in the world, especially personal and commercial computers.

Using the VMS support already built-in in original version ( Bjorn S. Nilsson ported Mosaic 1. 2 to VMS in the summer of 1993 ), developers incorporated substantial part of HTML engine from mMosaic, another defunct flavor of the browser.

The term is also used to refer to software that is ported from one computer platform or storage medium to another with little thought given to adapting it for use on the destination platform or medium, resulting in poor quality.

Demo, which was a large collection of music ported from the Commodore 64 by Jochen Hippel onto the Atari ST.

It featured a large collection of music ported from various Commodore 64 games by their recently joined musician Jochen Hippel.