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The Wollongong Group (TWG) was one of the first (companies ) to sell commercial software products based on the Unix operating system. It was founded to market a port of Unix Version 6 developed by researchers at Wollongong University, Australia (thus the name "Wollongong Group"). The company was active in Palo Alto, California from 1980 to 1995. It later achieved name recognition as a pioneer in developing and selling commercial versions of the TCP/IP protocols. The Wollongong Group had annual sales of $27 million and employed 165 people when it was acquired by former competitor Attachmate in 1995. == Commercializing TCP/IP and the Internet == Virtually all Wollongong's products were initially based on versions of software that had been developed at Universities and released into the public domain. Wollongong products included: * Eunice - A UNIX emulator for the VAX VMS operating system (based on software written by David Kashtan at SRI) * TCP/IP package for the VAX VMS operating system (based on Berkeley TCP/IP) * TCP/IP package for AT&T UNIX Version 7. (also based on Berkeley TCP/IP) * TCP/IP package for the IBM PC (Based on MIT PC-IP by John Romkey) These products were among the first commercially supported systems of their type, allowing people other than software developers access to the Internet. The PC product in particular made it possible for a non-technical user to access the Internet with equipment costing less than $3000 - about one tenth the cost of any other available systems at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Wollongong Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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