Simtel - Citizendia

Simtel is an Internet-based archive of shareware for various operating systems, particularly Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks The term shareware, popularized by Bob Wallace, refers to Copyrighted commercial Software that is Distributed without payment on a trial Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. MS-DOS (short for M icro' s' oft D isk O perating S ystem is an Operating system commercialized by Microsoft. The Simtel archive has been available on the public Internet since 1993, when its older ARPANET host was shut down. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) The ARPANET ( Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational

The Simtel archive has had significant ties to the history of FreeBSD, as archive distributor Walnut Creek CDROM helped fund FreeBSD development and hosted the main Simtel archive on FreeBSD servers. FreeBSD is a Unix-like free Operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD branch through Walnut Creek CDROM ( Walnut Creek California) was an early provider of Freeware, Shareware and Free software on CD-ROMs The company The original website and long-time primary mirrors were located at www. cdrom. com, www. simtel. net, and oak. oakland. edu at Oakland University. Oakland University is a Public university located in Rochester Michigan. [1] In July 1998, the Simtel FTP server set a record for overall traffic with a total transfer amount of 417 GB of data in one day. [2],[3] In May 1999, the Simtel FTP server surpassed its own record by transferring, in one day, a total of 873 GB. [4]

History

Simtel originated as SIMTEL20, a software archive started by Keith Petersen in 1979 while living in Royal Oak, Michigan. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Royal Oak is a city in Oakland County of the US state of Michigan. Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. The original archive consisted of CP/M software for early 8080-based microcomputers. CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers is an Operating system originally created for Intel 8080 / 85 based Microcomputers by Gary Kildall microcomputer is a Computer with a Microprocessor as its Central processing unit. The software was hosted on a PDP-10 at MIT that also ran a CP/M mailing list Mr. The PDP-10 was a Mainframe computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC from the late 1960s on the name stands for "Programmed Data Processor Petersen was subscribed to. When access to the particular MIT computer was removed in 1983, fellow CP/M enthusiast Frank Wancho, then an employee at the White Sands Missile Range, arranged for the archive to be hosted on a DECSYSTEM-20 computer with ARPANET access, accessible via FTP at simtel20. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The DECSYSTEM-20 was a 36-bit DEC PDP-10 Computer running the TOPS-20 operating system The ARPANET ( Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational arpa, later known as wsmr-simtel20. army. mil. [5] At this time, Simtel began archiving MS-DOS software in addition to its archive of CP/M software.

Over time, the SIMTEL20 archive added software for other operating systems, user groups and various programming languages, including the Ada Software Repository, the CP/M User's Group, PC/Blue, SIG/M(icros), and the Unix/C collections. A programming language is an Artificial language that can be used to write programs which control the behavior of a machine particularly a Computer. Ada is a structured, Statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level computer Programming language Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer tags please moot on the talk page first! --> In Computing, C is a general-purpose cross-platform block structured [6] In 1991, Walnut Creek CDROM was founded by Robert A. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Bruce, which helped distribute the Simtel archive on CD-ROM discs for those not wishing to access the archive online. [7]

In 1993, the SIMTEL20 archive at White Sands Missile Range was shut down due to budget constraints. [8] From 1993 on, the Walnut Creek CDROM FTP server and (later on) website became the focal point for online Simtel access. Due to a mirror licensing dispute situation with Coast to Coast Telecommunications in 1995 (now Allegiance Telecom, part of XO Communications), archive maintainer Keith Petersen left his employment with CCT and moved on to Walnut Creek CDROM. XO Communications (previously Nextlink Communications and Concentric Network Corporation) is a United States Telecommunications firm and one of the largest Competitive [9] In October 1999, Walnut Creek CDROM was purchased by Digital River for $1. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Digital River, Inc is an American E-commerce Outsourcing company whose clientele is largely Software publishers the company is the leading 0 million USD and 143,885 shares of common stock. [10] Mr. Petersen contracted with Digital River, along with small business owner and son Kurt Petersen of Petersen Business Management, to manage the Simtel collections and continued to do so until January 15, 2001. [11]

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