Roundhill Computer Systems Limited: Difference between revisions

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A British company based in Ogbourne St. George, Marlborough in Wiltshire that was originally incorporated on May the 22nd 1980. RCS started out life creating PL/I programming tools for CP/M and introduced a PL/I screen painter called "Panel" in 1981 that they later ported to other systems and programming languages in an enhanced version named Panel Plus II. The company is no longer in the development tools market, but provides development and software support services for software house Copia and their communications product CopiaFacts.

The company also created freeware utilities that floated around BBSs in the 1980s such as disk utilities hf.com and fh.com.

Products

Panel - 1981 Predecessor to Panel Plus
Panel Plus II - Screen painter for C and FORTRAN
PAMAKE - Open source make utility.

Links

Copia homepage

Known personnel

Timothy Oliver Frost (Director)
Charlotte Birgitta Baskerville Frost

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-A British company based in Ogbourne St. George, Marlborough in Wiltshire that was originally incorporated on May the 22nd 1980, but the company later also had offices in Wheaton, Illinois, USA as well. RCS started out life creating [[PL/I]] programming tools for [[CP/M]] and introduced a PL/I screen painter called "Panel" in 1981 that they later ported to other systems and programming languages. The company was later bought by software house [[Copia]] and is now known as '''Copia Europe'''.
+A British company based in Ogbourne St. George, Marlborough in Wiltshire that was originally incorporated on May the 22nd 1980. RCS started out life creating [[PL/I]] programming tools for [[CP/M]] and introduced a PL/I screen painter called "Panel" in 1981 that they later ported to other systems and programming languages in an enhanced version named [[Panel Plus II]]. The company is no longer in the development tools market, but provides development and software support services for software house [[Copia]] and their communications product CopiaFacts.
-The company may perhaps be best remembered by old DOS heads for their freeware utilities that floated around  BBSs in the 1980's such as disk utilities hf.com and fh.com.
+The company also created freeware utilities that floated around BBSs in the 1980s such as disk utilities hf.com and fh.com.
 ==Products==
-* Panel - 1981 Predecessor to Panel Plus
+* [[Panel]] - 1981 Predecessor to Panel Plus
 * [[Panel Plus II]] - Screen painter for [[C]] and [[FORTRAN]]
 * [[PAMAKE]] - Open source [[make]] utility.
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 * Charlotte Birgitta Baskerville Frost
-[[Category:Defunct companies]]
+[[Category:Companies]]