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From: jeff@gistdev.UUCP (Jeff Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do you know where 'Custom Software Systems' is?
Keywords: pc/vi editor question
Message-ID: <823@gistdev.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 89 16:10:52 GMT
References: <1108@qip.UUCP> <1959@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
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Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL
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Tama >In article <1108@qip.UUCP> tama@qip.UUCP (Tama McBride) writes:
Tama >Do you know if the company 'Custom Software Systems' is still in
Tama >business?  We have some software of theirs (pc/vi) and I have some

Doug >dougm@palomar.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Doug Marshall) writes:
Doug >They were put out of business by ATT. Seems they were found to have used
Doug >some (all?) of the source code to create the vi editor. The last known address
Doug >that I have is printed on the cover of the pc/vi manual is:

   Actually, I believe AT&T sued them over another product, PC/TOOLS. 
   PC/TOOLS was a group of basic UNIX utility programs like ls, cat, sed,
   etc...  Apparently, they derived them from AT&T source and claimed in
   their manuals and ads that the programs had nothing to do with the AT&T
   source. 

   AT&T didn't like that nor the fact that they didn't receive licensing or
   royalty fees. 
 
Doug >I don't think that they're in business any more. 

   Yes, alas, they went bankrupt and promised not to sell their products
   anymore. 

   Their PC/VI is the BEST PC version that I have used.  The last MKS
   version I tried did not impress me.

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