Computer Corporation of America (CCA) was a computer software and

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company founded in 1965. It was best known for its

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(M204) database system for IBM and compatible mainframes. It was acquired by

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in 2010.http://www.ebizq.net/news/12526.html; acquired June 13, 2010

Corporate history

Founded in 1965, Computer Corporation of America (CCA) was a computer software and

. with offices in Technology Square, Kendall Square,

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 United States census, ...

. Their primary database product, first deployed in 1972, was

(M204), which ran on IBM mainframes. It incorporates a programming language and an environment for application development. CCA operated the

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Datacomputer. In 1992, CCA purchased the System 1022 and System 1032 assets of Software House; these database systems were designed for

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and

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systems, respectively. In 1984, CCA was purchased by Crowntek, a Toronto-based company. Crowntek sold Computer Corporation of America's Advanced Information Technology division to

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in 1988. The balance of CCA was acquired by

, a Boston-based developer of enterprise infrastructure products, in April 2010.

CCA EMACS

Early Ads for CCA EMACS (Computer Corporation of America) (Steve Zimmerman) appeared in 1984. 1985 comparisons to GNU Emacs, when it came out, mentioned free vs. $2,400.

References

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