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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, 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'''. | ||
The company may perhaps be best remembered by old DOS heads for their freeware utilities that floated around | 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. | ||
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* Panel - 1981 Predecessor to Panel Plus | * Panel - 1981 Predecessor to Panel Plus | ||
* [[Panel Plus II]] - Screen painter for [[C]] and [[FORTRAN]] | * [[Panel Plus II]] - Screen painter for [[C]] and [[FORTRAN]] | ||
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* Charlotte Birgitta Baskerville Frost | * Charlotte Birgitta Baskerville Frost | ||
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Revision as of 23:18, 27 March 2018
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.
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.
Products
- Panel - 1981 Predecessor to Panel Plus
- Panel Plus II - Screen painter for C and FORTRAN
- PAMAKE - Open source make utility.
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Known personnel
- Timothy Oliver Frost (Director)
- Charlotte Birgitta Baskerville Frost