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"Free and user supported software for the IBM PC" (1990;
ISBN 9780899504995).

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January 1986. More than any other source it gives a lot of detail about how the Imaginet
system worked and the principles behind its design.

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This article appeared in the [June 1987 edition of PC Week](https://archive.org/details/sim_eweek_1987-06-09_4_23/page/n182/mode/1up?view=theater)
and describes how George Weston Ltd. adopted Imaginet for its business needs.
There is a brief mention of the origin of the Imaginet name.

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A brief review from the same magazine in the [August 1985](https://archive.org/details/sim_it-magazine_1985-08_17_8/page/n5/mode/2up)
edition, describing how "up to 50 floppy disk images can be created on the
host's hard drive":

![Imaginet review](articles/imaginet-review.jpg)
![Imaginet review](imaginet-review.jpg)

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title: Articles about Sopwith and BMB Compuscience
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# Articles about BMB Compuscience

* [National Post article from 1985](natpost_nov_1985.pdf)
* [MUPET brochure](mupet-brochure.pdf)
* [1984 full-page ad from the Edmonton Journal](edmonton_journal_oct1984.pdf)
* [Articles about Imaginet](imaginet.md)

# Articles about Sopwith

* [Review](free-ibmpc.md) from the book "Free and user supported software for
the IBM PC" (1990)

# Patents

* [Canadian patent 1172380](canada-patent-1172380.pdf)
* [US patent 4792896](us-patent-4792896.pdf)
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![Boxed copy of Imaginet showing manual, floppy disks and ISA card](img/imaginet-boxed.jpg)

Some [articles](imaginet.md) describe the system, including a multi-page ad
written by Jack Cole, one of the system's technical architects, who gives some
details about the system and the underlying philosophy behind its design.
A virtual drive could be accesed by multiple other client machines, and the
shared drive would appear to those clients as though it was just another floppy
drive.
Some [articles](articles/imaginet.md) describe the system, including a
multi-page ad written by Jack Cole, one of the system's technical architects,
who gives some details about the system and the underlying philosophy behind
its design. A virtual drive could be accesed by multiple other client
machines, and the shared drive would appear to those clients as though it was
just another floppy drive.

Marketing materials for Imaginet emphasized this "transparency" that allowed
normal DOS software to interface with the network. This was the origin of the
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also meant that any operating system could be used - IBM originally offered
multiple options including CP/M-86.

* [Some published articles about Imaginet](imaginet.md) that give some
* [Some published articles about Imaginet](articles/imaginet.md) that give some
technical information about the system and how it worked.
* [Canadian patent 1172380](articles/canada-patent-1172380.pdf) and the
equivalent [US patent 4792896](articles/us-patent-4792896.pdf).
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having multiple instances of QEMU sharing a floppy disk image.

A review was published of this version in the book "Free and user supported
software for the IBM PC"; you can read it [here](free-ibmpc.md).
software for the IBM PC"; you can read it [here](articles/free-ibmpc.md).

* [Download (.zip)](original-files/sopwith1.zip)
* [Documentation](original-files/sopwith1_docs.txt) for this version.
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* [Sopwith (video game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_%28video_game%29)
on Wikipedia.
* [A selection of articles](articles/index.md) about Sopwith, Imaginet and
BMB Compuscience.
* [Decoded: Sopwith](http://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-sopwith/),
MaiZure's analysis of the Sopwith source code
* [A review of Sopwith](free-ibmpc.md) from the book "Free and user supported
software for the IBM PC" (1990).
* [Several articles about Imaginet](imaginet.md) that give some background on the
system.
* ["The Search for Nostalgic PC Games Digs Out a Forgotten Gem"](https://medium.com/sepia-sententiae/the-search-for-nostalgic-pc-games-digs-out-a-forgotten-gem-d4e67f1297be),
by The Secret Aspirant
* [Memory Cache: Sopwith](https://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s4295505.htm)
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