Qmodem
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Qmodem was a MS-DOS shareware telecommunications program and terminal emulator. Qmodem was widely used to access bulletin boards in the 1980s and was well respected in the BBS community. Qmodem was also known as Qmodem SST and Qmodem Pro.
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[edit] History
Qmodem was developed by John Friel III in 1984 and sold the software through a company called The Forbin Project. Originally developed in Borland Turbo Pascal, the application originally supported the Xmodem protocol, gradually added support for other protocols such as the popular Zmodem protocol and CompuServe-specific protocols such as CIS-B and CIS-B+. After a few versions it was rewritten in C and renamed Qmodem SST, and evolved features such as the ability to host a simple BBS. The application was sold to Mustang Software in 1991 and in 1992 Mustang Software released version 5 of the program[1]. Mustang Software changed the name of the software to Qmodem Pro and released several versions for MS-DOS and for Microsoft Windows with the final version being Qmodem Pro 2.21 for Windows 95 and Windows NT which was released July 7, 1997[2].
Qmodem Pro continued to be sold by Mustang Software through 2000 when the rights to it were purchased by Quintus Corporation[3]. Its status is now abandonware.
[edit] Awards
- 1992 John Friel received the Dvorak Award for his development of Qmodem[4]
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[edit] References
- ^ "New for telecom: Qmodem 5 debuts from Mustang - Mustang Software Inc.'s communications software - Product Announcement". Washington Post Newsweek Interactive. 1992-01-13. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1992_Jan_13/ai_11745228. Retrieved on 2007-08-20.
- ^ SLBBS Support Files
- ^ Qmodem Pro Definition
- ^ Dvorak Awards
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