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TDBS is a multi-user implementation of DBase3 created by Phil Becker of eSoft Inc. for BBS operators of the TBBS [The Bulletin Board System] software.

The software resembled Clipper in that it contained a built-in compiler for TDBS which allowed the compiled database to reside in memory accessible to 64 simultaneously logged in users via modem. The tiny size of the compiled code allowed live interactive updating of the data in real-time.

Therefore TDBS could be considered as one of the first multiuser DOS based RTOS systems pre-dating Minix.

The release of the TDBS environment into the BBS community resulted in multiple aplications being written by BBS owners worldwide from simple Games through to Microsoft Software CVS tracking and Blackbird Development support in 1993.