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Vern Buerg is one of the founders of shareware. He began writing shareware utilities in 1983, before the term shareware was ever coined. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using a PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his LIST utility is currently in use on an estimated 10-15 million PC's worldwide. Also very popular were the ARChive utilities. For some history, see History of Compression. Vern ran a bulletin board system (BBS) called VOR from 1985 until 1997. For a history of BBSes, grab the DVD "BBS: The Documentary". With the advent of Windows and NT, Vern has once again proven his versatility as a programmer, keeping the speed and elegance intact, while making LIST more feature-rich than ever. Vern has been a member of the Shareware Hall of Fame since the first year of the awards. |
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