- Apparently, unless someone else writes about you then you have no page here... which is interesting, since anyone who would write about anything I've done would be hear-say, and non-authoritative. HMMMM. Thx wikipedians!
William J. "Cryo" Coldwell (a.k.a. Bill Coldwell) (born January 28 1966 in Virginia) helped invent a global transparent HTTP cache, as well as co-invented the CSA 40/4 Magnum single-board computer, CSA 12 Gauge, and the MacroSystems Warp Engine for the Amiga computer with Steven L. Kelsey.[citation needed] He worked with Matt Dillon and Michael "Mykes" Schwartz at an Internet service provider start-up BEST Internet, which was later purchased by Verio, which was later purchased by NTT-Japan.
He has been a NetBSD developer since 1994 on the Amiga (port-amiga) and Total Impact BRiQ (port-ofppc) ports, as well as system administration lead for the NetBSD project (1995-200x). He was a prominent Amiga developer from 1985 until Commodore's bankruptcy in 1993.
- CryoCafe (BBS), one of the earliest Amiga-based bulletin board systems that was reachable via telnet.
- Member of RAINet, (rain.net) with Randy Bush, Michael Galassi, Alan Batie, et al, an early NSF-funded research project.
Miscellaneous
edit- Go Cryo Go - A chippy tune. 9k a MOD (file format) by U4ia (Jim Young).
- fish disks #428 CryoUtils (misspelled "CyroUtils", by Fred Fish). a set of animation utilities for the Amiga by Cryogenic Software (from the Animation Station/3-D Professional)
"CyroUtils: Four handy animation utilities from Cryogenic Software. Includes an animation creation tool that allows you to combine selected pictures into a standard animation, an animation information tool that is used to extract certain information from a given animation, an animation combining tool that allows you to join two animations into a larger one, and an animation splitting tool that allows you to split one animation into two smaller ones. Binary only. Author: Cyrogenic Software"
Business
edit- Founded Cryogenic Software with Brian D. Wagner, Michael Hartman in 1984.
- Founded Warped Software in 1992
- Founded Warped Communications in 1995, incorporated in 1997 in Santa Clara, California, and later relocated to Atlanta, Georgia.