Development
N.U.T.S. stands for Neil's Unix Talk Server and started off as a final year undergraduate CS networking project at Loughborough University called "TalkServ", in 1992. Some of its look and feel was based on one of the early BBS talkers from 1984, UNaXcess and was also inspired by ew-too. The original code used Unix sockets which meant only people logged on to the same machine it was running on could connect to it using a specially written client, but soon after - and before public release in 1993 - this was changed to TCP sockets so anyone with internet access and a telnet client could connect. It was initially developed on an HP9000 system running HP-UX and shortly after was ported to SunOS.
When NUTS reached its 3.3.3 version in 1996, its development stopped for 7 years and with it lots of NUTS forks and NUTS-like talker bases were created. From those, the best known and most used is Amnuts.
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