The Mark Williams Company was a small software company in Chicago, Illinois (later moved to Northbrook ) that created Coherent , one of the first Unix-like operating systems for IBM PCs and several C programming language compilers . It was founded by Robert Swartz (father of Aaron Swartz ) in 1977 and discontinued operations in 1995. The name comes from the middle name of Robert Swartz's father, William Mark Swartz.
5-479: MWC may refer to: Organisations [ edit ] Mark Williams Company , a software company Mennonite World Conference , a global community of Christian churches Midwest Conference , a U.S. college athletic conference Mountain West Conference , another U.S. collegiate athletic conference (more often abbreviated as MW) Music World Corporation ,
10-748: A U.S. music publishing company Other uses [ edit ] Married... with Children , a U.S. television situation comedy Ma Wan Channel , a channel between Ma Wan and Tsing Yi islands in Hong Kong The Minnesota Wrecking Crew , a Canadian sketch comedy troupe Mobile World Congress , annual conference and trade show for the mobile phone industry in Barcelona Monod-Wyman-Changeux model , biochemical model of protein transitions Multiply-with-carry pseudorandom number generator , an algorithm Oklahoma Marginal Wells Commission ,
15-436: A committee M wc , a measure of an earthquake's magnitude Mount Wilson Catalogue (1933) of class O, B, and A stars with bright hydrogen lines See also [ edit ] MWCD (disambiguation) WMC (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title MWC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
20-545: The company (originally producing a soft drink called Dr. Enuf ) into software with his father's help and the company became known as the Mark Williams Company. Mark Williams won a patent lawsuit ( U.S. patent 4,956,809 ) centered on 'byte ordering'. Separately, and at that time, Linux had made serious inroads in the UNIX clone market. Since Coherent was a commercially available package and Linux
25-426: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MWC&oldid=1257470285 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles using Mwc magnitude scale Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mark Williams Company Robert Swartz moved
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