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All of these commanders are a rip of the original Norton Commander by John Socha in 1986. John also created the first screen saver and coined the term. His comp
by clint 4y ago
All of these commanders are a rip of the original Norton Commander by John Socha in 1986. John also created the first screen saver and coined the term. His company also created the Microsoft Plus! addon for Windows 95 and screensavers for Win98.
Pretty cool dude!
- rasz 4y agoDont you mean "Norton Commander Copyright (C) 1986 by Peter Norton"? :-) Reminds me of https://wetmachine.com/my-thoughts-exactly/ghost-writer/ https://wetmachine.com/my-thoughts-exactly/ghost-writer/ >I was ego surfing today when I came upon this link to a book “Inside the Sun386i and Sun486i” by Peter Norton and, to my great astonishment, me. >And it turned out that I was going to have to write a 400 or so page book. For which I was going to be given, I think, a $3,000 advance against royalties. The book was going to say “By PETER NORTON” and there would be a tiny “with John Sundman” at the bottom. Norton was not required to do any writing or editing;
- hjkl0 4y agoI guess you were joking, but FWIW, John Socha is the creator of Norton Commander: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Socha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Socha > John Socha-Leialoha (born 1958) is a software developer best known for creating Norton Commander, the first orthodox file manager