Superior Software Services (Company)

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Type: company

Industry: Custom Software Development and Systems Consulting

Location: Beaverton, Oregon

Alias: Superior Software Services, Superior Software Services, Superior Software

Superior Software Services
Superior Software Services was a software consulting and engineering firm based in Beaverton, Oregon, founded by Jonathan Kirwan and Steve Salta during the minicomputer era in the 1970s.
Superior Software gave Randal Schwartz his very first paid commercial programming gig, hiring him to write the TOTO (Terminal Oriented Text Organizer) text editor. See IDES Viral Spread and the TOTO Text Editor Gig.

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🔗 First Unix Experience in 1977 🔗 Gladstone Childhood, FOCAL on Lined Paper, and the Early Career Arc 🔗IDES 🔗 IDES Viral Spread and the TOTO Text Editor Gig 🔗Jonathan Kirwan 🔗 My Summer Temp Job at Tektronix and Learning to Write 🔗Steve Salta 🔗TOTO 🔗 TOTO Text Editor Floating-Point Line Numbers 🔗TriMet

These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.