[aprssig] MacAPRS_carbon OT:History

[Steve Dimse]

On 12/13/04 at 9:31 PM Dennis Hudson <n2lbt at spamcop.net> sent:

>I did not know that. But I've been playing with MacAPRS since 96 so I 
>know it's been an important part of APRS. Should have been called 
>MacAPRS for Windows.
>
It was, here is the original announcement of the plan to port MacAPRS to
Windows:

http://www.tapr.org/tapr/list-archive/aprssig/9509/msg00213.html

it includes this:

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To keep up to date on the status of MacAPRS for Windows, watch the
Web Page (http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/~ksproul/APRS/index.html
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Of course, that is was so Mac-like became a major complaint from Windows users.
The name was changed to WinAPRS before version 1.0

Steve K4HG