Re: TCP/IP Connection software

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the clarification. Senility comes early in Minnesota during
snowstorms.

At 05:00 PM 3/14/02 -0800, you wrote:
>IMHO being associated with any early CA stuff would be an embarassment esp
>if it went under the name PC Support.  The failure of that product is what
>spawned the non-IBM marketplace in the first place.

Some agreement here. A way over-engineered product.

>Lineage:
>
>The main Synapse enginner is Joe Frank who was a senior architect of the SSP
>operating system (S32, S34, S36, AS36, M36, S36e) when he was with IBM.  He
>fooled around with an "idea" in the late '70s to come up with 5250 emulation
>and the Emulator File Transfer (ETU) program which was originally sold by
>IBM before he formed Software Systems, Inc. (SSI).
>
>Synapse engineers first were SSI and then Emerald Technology.  They split
>off into Synapse when Andrew bought Emerald (which later spunoff to become
>Nlynx/Decision Data).  As Synapse Joe and his team wrote many of the early
>5250 clients for NetSoft, DCA, Attachmate, Andrew, Connectronnix, and
>others.  They also have a presence in Europe and Asia.
>
>Synapse helped David get midrange-l archives online in the early days of
>midrange.com
>
>Jerry
>
>Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
>Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, Linux, Sun, and
>iSeries
>Representing Synapse, Nlynx, Perle, CLI, Intermate and Others .....
>http://www.trilosoft.com - (415) 457-3431 - (415) 258-1658fax -
>jdraper@trilosoft.com
>
>
>
>
> > Synapse has a good reputation. Supposedly their people wrote some of the
> > early Client Access stuff (Jerome?)
>
>
>
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