In October 1985, Turner Hall introduced Note-It?, a notation utility for Lotus 1-2-3. Recognizing that software was also being created by small entrepreneurial developers, Symantec formed Turner Hall Publishing (THP), a division devoted to publishing third-party software. The following year, Symantec released Q&A?, the award-winning flat-file database and word processing software for the IBM?PC. Eubanks, Jr., founder of C&E Software, acquired Symantec in 1984. Gary Hendrix, one of the nation's leading experts in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. I think Norton Utilities was good until the quality went down in 9.0 which later got renamed as Norton Utilities for Windows v1.0. I just checked and here's the history for Symantec which as I remembered existed even when Peter Norton Computing did. I still have my DeskQView and QEMM386 somewhere around here with the manual too. DesqView was what they were popular for and at that time, it ran circles around Windows 2.1 for multitasking. The dos memory manager was called QEMM386 but that wasn't their big product though. Hmm, you sure Peter Norton created Symantec because I think Symantec existed when Peter Norton Computer did except it was doing Macintosh utilities. Norton/Symantec bought Central Point, and also QuarterDeck, which used to make CleanSweep and kickass dos memory manager called Qemm :D which they bought from Qemm Inc. Peter Norton created Symantec becuase name "Norton" was too 'narrow' The only bad thing is the drive had sticky problems starting up so I sent it to Priam and the company goes under and there goes $3500 down the drain as I never saw the HDD again. I remember 1989 when I had a 160MB Priam ESDI HDD. Norton Utilities went downhill after Symantec bought it too since there used to be this Calibrate program which does a non-destructive low level format of the HD similar to the way SpinRite works and it was pretty cool in the day. CHKDISK came from Norton Utilities as well. I wondered what happened to CentralPoint anyways. Defrag is like Norton Disk Doctor and the AntiVirus came from CentralPoint PCTools. I think it was DOS5.0 that they included the stuff. It didn't come from Symantec because Symantec didn't own Peter Norton Computing back then. Microsoft Utilities on non-NT5.x based systems were either Central Point or Norton. The one in XP is actually Diskeeper Lite though so. Even scandisk was writen by Symantec I think. The Defrag program has been writen by Symantec ever since they have been making OS's. CHKDISK is fine and you don't need to worry on using anything else if your using NTFS like said above. Microsoft's utilities are actually really good.
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