Robert Swartz moved the company (originally producing a soft drink called Dr. Enuf[2][3]) into software with his father's help and the company became known as the Mark Williams Company.
Mark Williams won a patent lawsuit (U.S. patent 4,956,809) centered on 'byte ordering'.[citation needed] Separately, and at that time,[when?]Linux had made serious inroads in the UNIX clone market. Since Coherent was a commercially available package and Linux was distributed freely on the Internet via their GNU public license, Coherent sales plummeted and Swartz had no choice but to cease operations in 1995.[citation needed]
Mark Williams C for the Atari ST, first major C programming environment for the ST computers.
XYBasic, a process control BASIC running on CP/M that could be burned on to memory (EPROM) and run on an 8080 standalone processor.
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^Ness, Stephen. "XYBASIC". Ness Software. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
^Lee, Joseph. "Dr. Enuf: The story of Johnson City Tennessee's most famous product". Tazewell-Orange.com. Retrieved 2013-03-03. In 1949 William Mark Swartz, President of Mark Williams Chemical Co. of Chicago, Ill., decided to create a soft drink that would relieve fatigue, headaches, indigestion etc…. He applied for a trademark for the drink on May 19, 1951.
^Sauceman, Fred (2009). The Place Setting: Timeless Tastes of the Mountain South. Vol. 3. Mercer Univ. Press. pp. 89–97. ISBN9780881461404. According to corporate lore, Bill Schwartz [sic], a Chicago chemist, developed the formula after hearing his co-workers complain of lethargy.
^"Does your C compiler understand you're only human? (advertisement)". PC Magazine. May 14, 1985. p. 284.
^Brown, T. D. (1990). C for Fortran Programmers. Silicon Press. p. x. ISBN0-929306-01-5.
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