I have to get in on this also!!
For a while in the mid-late 80's I was in IBM's "Academic Information
Systems" which contracted with universities to do research, development,
testing and such. One of those universities was Waterloo and I made a
number of trips up there related to several products, working with both
WATCOM and the University's CSG. Just this evening i had some coffee in a
mug that has the IBM, CSG and Waterloo logos. Thee were some very
interesting and talented people up there but I think the political
relationships and even competition between UW's CSG and WATCOM ultimately
worked against them.
Mike
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Phil -
I'm happy to find someone who worked at the University of Waterloo.
Did you work on any of the great software that Waterloo wrote for
academic use? Like WATFOR, WATFIV, WATBOL, Lisp, Modula-2, WPascal,
WAT-C, Waterloo Basic, Student CMS, and WATFILE? We ran them all.
Waterloo really dropped the ball on the marketing of WATFILE. They
had both a CMS and a PC version of this wonderful tool. In many ways
it is superior to Excel. The site license for the CMS version was
reasonably priced but $495 per copy of the PC version was just too
high in the 1980s.
I still have copies of the Waterloo VM Modifications tapes. I used
quite a few of the mods.
/Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 43 years
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:44:00 -0500 Phil Smith III said:
>Wow. This is OT, but this brings back memories: my VERY FIRST assignment
after
>I signed my first contract to work at the University of Waterloo
Department of
>Computing services (on my 19th birthday!) in 1980 was to write a MACTYPE
>command to extract members of MACLIBs and type them or save them to disk.
>Hundreds of miles from here and several thousand years ago...
>
>...phsiii
