Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Humorous early software company names
Ned mentioned a type design studio called Underware. Not sure why they call themselves Underware but it reminded me that the original company that developed the Brief text editor was also called Underware (which has a more obvious connection between company and product name). It turns out that there's another editor called Boxer which was also began as a play on words: another style of men's underwear.
A couple others I can recall from the early days of PC software were "Pickles and Trout" and BDS. "Pickles and Trout" developed a version of CP/M for Radio Shack TRS-80s. Can't seem to find any references via Google. BDS stood for "Brain Damaged Software" They wrote a C compiler for CP/M. Most people referred to the compiler as BDS C without necessarily knowing what the acronym stood for. Kind of like KFC trying to hide the fact that "Fried" is part of their name.
A couple others I can recall from the early days of PC software were "Pickles and Trout" and BDS. "Pickles and Trout" developed a version of CP/M for Radio Shack TRS-80s. Can't seem to find any references via Google. BDS stood for "Brain Damaged Software" They wrote a C compiler for CP/M. Most people referred to the compiler as BDS C without necessarily knowing what the acronym stood for. Kind of like KFC trying to hide the fact that "Fried" is part of their name.
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