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WinComm
WinComm was a terminal emulator program for Windows that was offered by Delrina in the mid-1990s. Seeing a growing business in online communications utilities, Delrina launched WinComm PRO. It was used primarily to connect to Bulletin Board Systems of the time, prior to the advent of the Internet. By double-clicking on an icon, the program would automatically connect to any of a number pre-defined online services, such as Delphi, Compuserve or GEnie, or to any other local BBS a user may have had defined. Delrina tried to expand aggressively into this market space, first by acquiring the Canadian online bulletin board service CRS Online, and then using it as a distribution channel for free versions of its WinComm LITE and DOS-based FreeComm products in March 1995. The WinComm PRO product culminated in version 7.0, which was bundled with the CommSuite 95 software package, which also included versions of WinFax, Cyberjack, and TalkWorks. WinComm was a relative latecomer to the mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delrina
Delrina Corporation was a Canadian software company active from 1988 to 1995. The company was best known for WinFax, a software package which enabled computers equipped with fax modems to transmit copies of documents to standalone fax machines or other similarly equipped computers. It also sold PerForm and FormFlow, Form (document), electronic form software. Delrina was acquired by the American software firm NortonLifeLock, Symantec in 1995. Delrina also produced a set of screensavers, including one that resulted in a well-publicized lawsuit for copyright and trademark infringement (''Berkeley Systems, Berkeley Systems Inc. v. Delrina''). The case set a precedent in American law whereby satire, satiric commercial software products are not subject to the same First Amendment to the United States Constitution, First Amendment exemptions as parody, parodic cartoons or literature. It also sold online communications software with its WinComm product and produced a Web browser called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |