chico+archive

Everyone calls me Chico and shantanu is mad cool. Identify: MP3 is MPEG-1 Audio layer 3, it is a type of music player. RTF is Rich Text Format, it is a type of document file format. Hypertext is a type of link. Search is a type of search engine. Wizards and Assistants is a form of a tutorial. Define: Software - the programs and other operating information used by a computer. Backdoor - an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains. Serial Number - a unique number assigned for identification. Spell Check - a software designed to verify the spelling of words. Feedback loop - the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system or device is returned to the input.

Shareware is a type of software where multiple users can share and exchange files and information. In 1982 [|Andrew Fluegelman] created a program for the [|IBM PC] called [|PC-Talk], a [|telecommunications] program, he used the term //freeware//. About the same time, [|Jim "Button" Knopf] released [|PC-File], a [|database] program, calling it //user-supported software//. Not much later, [|Bob Wallace] produced [|PC-Write], a word processor, and called it //shareware//. In 1984, //Softalk-PC// magazine had a column, //The Public Library//, about such software. //Public domain// is a misnomer for shareware, and //Freeware// was trademarked by Fluegelman and could not be legally used by others, and //User-Supported Software// was too cumbersome. So columnist [|Nelson Ford] held a contest to come up with a better name. The most popular name submitted was //Shareware//, which was being used by Wallace. However, Wallace acknowledged that he got the term from an [|InfoWorld] magazine column by that name in the 1970's, and that he considered the name to be generic, so its use became established over //freeware// and //user-supported software//. [|[1]] Fluegelman, Knopf, and Wallace clearly established shareware as a viable software marketing method. Via the shareware model, PC-File and PC-Talk made Button and Fluegelman millionaires[//[|citation needed]//]. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, shareware software was widely distributed over [|bulletin board systems] globally and on diskettes (and subsequently, CD-ROMs) by commercial shareware distributors who produced catalogs of up to thousands of public domain and shareware programs. One such distributor, //Public Software Library// (PSL), began an order-taking service for pro
 * __The History of Shareware__**