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 in 1977 and discontinued operations in 1995. The name comes from the middle name of the father of Robert Swartz, William Mark Swartz. Swartz moved the company, which had originally produced a soft drink called Dr. Enuf, into software with help from his father, and the firm won a patent lawsuit centered on byte ordering.
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1977 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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1995
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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.
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