CADAM

For Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing in general, see CAD/CAM.

CADAM

Developer(s)	Dassault Systemes
Stable release	CADAM Drafting V5R19 SP1 / October 29, 2008
Operating system	AIX, HP-UX, SGI-[IRIX], SunOS, Windows, MS-DOS
Website	www.cadam.com

CADAM (Computer Augmented Design And Manufacturing) is a CAD related product that was developed by Lockheed. CADAM is/was software originally written for IBM mainframes and later ported to UNIX workstations. A variant of CADAM called Micro CADAM was also developed, which also ran on PCs under DOS.

CADAM History

1977

• IBM agrees to sell CADAM to aerospace companies

1981

• CADAM Release 18.3 Released.

Provided support for IBM mainframes running VM/CMS.

1983

• CADAM INC is formed as a subsidiary of Lockheed Corp.

1985

• CADAM, Inc v. Adage, Inc.

CADAM INC successfully sues Adage over the CADAM look-and-feel. One of the first look-and-feel court cases.

1987

• CADAM INC and SDRC win massive GM C4 benchmark.

CADAM agrees to port Professional CADAM to Sun, Apollo and HP

1989

• CADAM INC is sold to IBM. CADAM INC an IBM Company is formed.

1990

• Microcadam is formed.
  • CADAM INC develops and enhances CADAM (mainframes) and Professional CADAM (workstations)
  • Microcadam develops Micro CADAM
• Professional CADAM ported to IBM RS/6000. One of the first non-IBM applications for the workstation.

1991

• Soules v. CADAM court case decision.[1]

1992

• IBM sells CADAM INC to Dassault Systèmes. This entity is called "Dassault Systemes of America" (DSA)
  • DSA maintains mainframe CADAM and Professional CADAM
• Altium is created.
  • Altium supports Micro CADAM, P-CAD and IBM CAD

1993

• An old version of Micro CADAM was made available via a free license for use on DOS PCs. Copies of this free version are still available on the internet.

1999/1998

• Microcadam becomes CSC/Microcadam

2000

• Microcadam closes. Dassault Systèmes assumes support for Microcadam software

2001

• Protel takes the name Altium [2]

External links

• CAD history
• MICROCADAM to Retire Helix Software