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2 unusual facts about Walnut Creek CDROM


Walnut Creek CDROM

In the early years, some of the most popular products were Simtel shareware for MS-DOS, CICA Shareware for Microsoft Windows (now the Sunny A archives), and the Aminet archives for the Amiga.

Walnut Creek developed a close relationship with the FreeBSD Unix-like open source operating system project from its inception in 1993.



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Simtel

Due to a mirror licensing dispute situation with Coast to Coast Telecommunications in 1995 (now Allegiance Telecom, part of XO Communications), archive maintainer Keith Petersen left his employment with CCT and moved on to Walnut Creek CDROM.