Wildcat! BBS was a bulletin board system

Bulletin board system

A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...

 server

Server (computing)

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 application

Application software

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 that Mustang Software

Mustang Software

Mustang Software, Inc. was a California-based corporation that developed telecommunications software products. Mustang was incorporated in 1988, became a public corporation in 1995, and was finally merged into Quintus Corporation in 2000.Mustang's first software products were sold using the...

 developed in 1986 for DOS

DOS

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, and later ported to Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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. By the release of Version 4 it was the basis for more than 50,000 bulletin board systems worldwide.

The product was later expanded to integrate Internet access under the name WINServer (Wildcat! Interactive Net Server). Mustang sold Wildcat! to Santronics Software, Inc. on November 19, 1998. Santronics had been an active third-party developer for the Wildcat! product lines since 1991.