The Chicken or the Egg?

[Jay A. Frankland]

From Joel Houpin ≫
 As regards XyWrite, Wintext is the ORIGINAL XyWrite. It's the Atex
 editor that Dave Ericson, et al, ported to DOS, founded XyQuest...and
 the rest was history. Wintext was written by an ex-Atex programmer
 named Robert Cook,    who conceived the idea while working as a
 consultant for my employer News International Newspapers (The Times,
 Sunday Times, Sun, News of the World, etc) here in London.
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From ... ≫
It seems that the sainthood we all accord Dave Erickson should at least
extend to Robert Cook.
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5/7/97:7:51AM TTG..............
Dave Erickson deserves his sainthood. He wrote every line of the
original XyWrite. It was based on Atex, but most definitely not ported
from it. He has never heard of Robert Cook. XyWrite was written before
the advent of Windows, so it hard to imagine how it was based on a
Windows product. It is possible that Wintext was based on AtexWriter,
which itself was a custom version of XyWrite written by XYQUEST for
Atex. (Confused yet?) Here's what I mean:

XyWrite (xyquest) ------> AtexWriter (xyquest) ----> WinText (robert cook)

Regards,
TTG