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In <crystal.714018267@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:

>In <1992Aug16.211310.1388@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umward10@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Derek Ward) writes:

>          FOR THE RECORD:

>The "Authors" of Citadel, as listed in the FISH description of the program
>are NOT the authors of the Citadel program!
>    ^^^

>They are the authors of the AMIGA VERSION, not of Citadel itself.  Citadel
>was the brain-child of Jeffrey S. Prothero some 10 years ago in CP/M.  He
>is here at the UW on glia.biostr.  The program was the first of its kind
>in a world of linear BBS's.

>Please, Mr. Fish, correct your records so that they do not imply erroneous
>authorship.  Citadel is one H*ll of a program, and credit for it's original
>and innovative design should not be taken away from the original author.

>And, yes, I have first hand knowledge of this because I worked on the
>original program with Jeff when it was in beta test at ICS on Bainbridge
>Island, Wa. back in 1981/2.

 I've never known the real name of the person who originally wrote Citadel
for CP/M.  I only recall that his psuedoname started with a 't', and
that he was in Washington.  So this is above info is quite likely
correct.

 However, as I understand the story.  The original author gave up
on Citadel completely early on.  Development was taken over by
Hue, Jr.(psuedoname) in Minneapolis.  Citadel from there was ported
over to MS-DOS, under the name Citadel-86.  The Amiga version of
Citadel written by Jay was a port of the Citadel-86 code.
 
 I'm by no means an expert on this.  I'm from the Minneapolis
area and have been using the Citadel's in that region since
about 1984, and followed Citadel from it's versions on CP/M,
MS-DOS, C-128, Amiga, Atari ST, and even Macintosh.

 If anybody is truely interested in more of the history of Citadel
I know that Hue Jr.'s BBS used to have a history file on there,
and I'd be willing to obtain this and forward this info.


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