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A software company founded in 1982 in London, England by Michael St Clair Oakes and George Anthony "Tony" Hetherington, specialised in making development software for British home computers such as the Sinclair QL but when that market started to dry up the company ported its most popular tools the the IBM PC. The company closed down in 1998 but mr Hetherington continued selling and supporting the products under the same name as a sole trader.

Known products

Extended Pascal - 32 bit Pascal development system for OS/2 and later Windows.
Prospero FORTRAN 77 - 16 bit FORTRAN compiler for the Sinclair QL, DOS and OS/2
Prospero Pascal - 16 bit Pascal compiler for the Sinclair QL, DOS and OS/2

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	A software company founded in 1982 in London, England by Michael St Clair Oakes and George Anthony "Tony" Hetherington, specialised in making development software for British home computers such as the [[Sinclair QL]] but when that market started to dry up the company ported its most popular tools the the IBM PC.		A software company founded in 1982 in London, England by Michael St Clair Oakes and George Anthony "Tony" Hetherington, specialised in making development software for British home computers such as the [[Sinclair QL]] but when that market started to dry up the company ported its most popular tools the the IBM PC. The company closed down in 1998 but mr Hetherington continued selling and supporting the products under the same name as a sole trader.

	==Known products==		==Known products==