Atlas

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Atlas
Original author(s) John Dempsey (aka Angela Davis)
Initial release 1992 (1992)
Discontinued v2.00.05a / May 1992; 32 years ago (1992-05)
Written in Microsoft C
Operating system MS-DOS
Platform IBM PC
Child of ACit (?)

Atlas never really got far. It seemed to mostly be a way for John to implement his pet project at the time: an auto-router. In the network used by systems derived from Dragon's Citadel, routing e-mail from one user to another relied on sysops keeping track of network connections manually.

John made the auto-router external to Atlas, and some people used it. However, with the advent of an improved network protocol used by Gremlin's Citadel (and later Maven's Citadel), it became unneeded. The coolest feature of Atlas however did make it into Gremlin's Citadel: Quack!

File Size Date
Atlas v2.00.05a Source code (zip file damaged?) 255,944 bytes May, 1992