Jonathan Kirwan (Person)

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Alias: Jonathan Kirwan, Jon Kirwan, Jonathan Kirwan, Jon Kirwan

Location: Oregon

Jonathan Kirwan
Jonathan Kirwan (Jon Kirwan) is an engineer and software developer based in Oregon.
In the 1970s, he co-founded Superior Software Services in Beaverton alongside Steve Salta.
Through the early HP 2000 BASIC community and IDES chat system, Kirwan connected with Randal Schwartz and hired him to author the TOTO text editor—Randal's first paid commercial programming job. 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 Viral Spread and the TOTO Text Editor Gig 🔗Steve Salta 🔗Superior Software Services 🔗 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.