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and later ported to

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s, including the

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. A variant of CADAM called Micro CADAM was also developed for PCs under DOS.

History

* 1977: IBM agreed to sell CADAM to aerospace companies. * 1981: CADAM Release 18.3 was released. It provided support for IBM mainframes running VM/CMS. * 1983: CADAM Inc is formed as a subsidiary of Lockheed Corp. * 1985: CADAM Inc successfully sued Adage over the CADAM

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. It was one of the first look-and-feel court cases. * 1987: CADAM Inc and SDRC won a massive GM C4 benchmark. CADAM agreed to port Professional CADAM to

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and HP. * 1989: CADAM Inc was sold to IBM. CADAM Inc, an IBM Company, was formed. * 1990: Microcadam was formed. CADAM Inc developed and enhanced CADAM (mainframes) and Professional CADAM (workstations). Microcadam developed Micro CADAM. Professional CADAM was ported to IBM

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. It was one of the first non-IBM applications for the workstation. * 1991: There was a decision in the Soules v. CADAM court cas

* 1991: CADAM V3R2 Released - arguably the best release to date. * 1992: IBM sold CADAM Inc to

Dassault Systèmes Dassault Systèmes SE () (abbreviated 3DS) is a French software corporation which develops software for 3D product design, simulation, manufacturing and other 3D related products. Founded in 1981, it is headquartered in Vélizy-Villacoublay, F ...

. This entity is called "Dassault Systemes of America" (DSA). DSA maintains mainframe CADAM and Professional CADAM.

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was created. Altium supported Micro CADAM, P-CAD and IBM CAD. * 1993: An old version of Micro CADAM was made available via a free license for use on DOS PCs. Copies of this free version are still available on the internet. * 1999/1998: Microcadam became CSC/Microcadam. * 2000: Microcadam closed.

assumed support for Microcadam software. * 2001: Protel took the name

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20180415195158/http://www.cadhistory.net/
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