Mansfield Software Group
A company founded in 1986 by Kevin J. Kearney and based in Storrs-Mansfield, in Connecticut, USA. Sold the XEDIT compatible KEDIT text editor but prior to the founding of the company Mr Kearney had been selling KEDIT for DOS as a sole trader since 1983, but an OS/2 version of the editor added not long after MSG was founded. The company also sold the Personal REXX interpreter developed by Charles Daney of Quercus Systems, but the KEXX interpreter used in the KEDIT editor appears to be a simplified version of Personal REXX.
Mansfield staff programmer Nico Mak hit the jackpot a few years later when his part time shareware project WinZip became the must-have utility for Microsoft Windows, but WinZip was simply the Info-Zip archiver packaged in a very simple windows shell. Mr Mak formed the Nick Mak Computing company (later renamed Winzip Computing) around the WinZip business and most of the personnel involved with Mansfield Software Group appear to have become involved with WinZip, even founder Kevin Kearney was consulting for WinZip for a number of years and the two companies shared an address for a time. Although Mansfield did manage to ship a Windows version of KEDIT, new releases were notably fewer than they had been before and shortly after the WinZip company was sold in 2006, Mansfield Software Group announced that it would wind down its operations.
Known products
- KEDIT - XEDIT compatible text editor for OS/2, DOS and Microsoft Windows
- Personal REXX - REXX interpreter for OS/2 and DOS.
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Known personnel
- Kevin J. Kearney
- Nico Mak
- Sara J. Rogers