The Byte Works , founded and run by Mike Westerfield , was a key player in the history of developer tools for Apple II computers. Its first product, the ORCA M assembler O bject R elocatable C ode A ssembler for M icrocomputers , and also MACRO spelled backwards , developed jointly by Westerfield and Phil Montoya , was a powerful assembly language development environment, complete with a Unix style shell, which ran on 8 bit Apple II computers. However, The Byte Works came into its own when Apple Computer was developing the Apple IIgs Apple sc II gs computer. In need of developer tools, they contacted The Byte Works and came to an agreement by which The Byte Works would develop the official developer tool suite for the Apple sc II gs the Apple Programmer s Workshop APW . This tool suite eventually would include an assembler as well as a C compiler. The Byte Works was also able to distribute its own developer tool suite, based on the same code as APW. The ORCA M assembler came first, followed by ORCA Pascal , ORCA C , and several other languages, including ORCA Modula 2 and ORCA Integer BASIC . The Byte Works did produce software other than developer tools, although tools were their mainstay. The Quick Click Calc spreadsheet was an excellent spreadsheet for the Apple sc II gs , although it arrived on the scene too late to have any major impact on the market. An easy to use and very powerful BASIC interpreter called GSoft BASIC was also eventually released in the mid 1990s. With the ability to communicate with the Apple IIgs Toolbox Apple sc II gs Toolbox , it could be used to produce powerful software with a minimum of effort. The Byte Works ceased development of Apple II software in 2000 and licensed its entire product line to Syndicomm, which continues to publish its extensive library to this day. External links http store.syndicomm.com index.php?manufacturers id 11 Byte Works products still available for purchase DEFAULTSORT Byte Works Category Defunct software com ... more details
About the Mozilla developer the Linux kernel hacker David S. Miller other persons Dave Miller Infobox person name Dave Miller image Justdave smallpic.jpg image size 70px caption birth date 1972 birth place Port Huron, Michigan known for Bugzilla occupation software developer nationality American Dave Miller born 1972 is an American software developer best known as the project leader and one of the main original developers of the Bugzilla bugtracker bug tracking tool developed at Mozilla Organization Mozilla.Org . ref cite web url http www.isp planet.com services trouble ticket bugzilla.html title Trouble Ticketing Systems Directory Bugzilla last Goldman first Jeff date July 26, 2006 publisher ISP Planet accessdate 2008 11 06 ref ref cite web url https www.ohloh.net accounts justdave title ohlo Profile Dave Miller publisher ohlo accessdate 2008 11 06 ref He assumed the role of Bugzilla s maintainer after the previous maintainer, Tara Hernandez , stepped down. Citation needed date November 2008 His Bugzilla component responsibilities are bugzilla.org and Query Buglist. ref cite web url http www.bugzilla.org developers profiles.html title Bugzilla Current Developers date August 13, 2008 publisher The Mozilla Organization accessdate 2008 11 06 ref He is currently employed by the Mozilla Corporation . Miller is also the creator and maintainer of an IRC bot written in Perl known as bzbot . Background Miller was born in Port Huron , Michigan in 1972 . He began attending Adrian College in 1990, but left after three years. Miller then took on a variety of technical and management roles for Meijer . In 2001, Miller became the lead software engineer for the online company Syndicomm and then at Steelcase . In March 2004, he left America Online to join the startup which would become Canonical Ltd. . ref cite web url http mozillamemory.org detailview.php?id 7476 title Interview with Dave Miller date 2007 08 08 publisher Mozilla Digital Memory Bank accessdate 2008 11 06 ref He beg ... more details
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