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View Ref-FileFrom: Holger Herzog <Holger_Herzog@ZW.maus.de>
Organization: MAUS Zweibrƒcken +49-6332-16629
Newsgroups: <maus.computer.sprache.gfabasic>
Date: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: gfa history

Hi Lonny!

L>Does someone here know what "gfa" means in the title of "gfa-basic"? I
L>have wondered this since the day I discovered version 2.x back in the
L>days of the Atari 520st.

As far as I know, GFA (originally called "GfA") was a shortcut for
"Gesellschaft für Anwendungssoftware mbH". That means in english
(word by word): "Company for application software Ltd." So GfA was
the name of the company, and GfA-Basic was the name of the software.

But in fact, this name ("GfA") was in conflict with the name of a
further organization. I can't remember which one it was. But due to
that, the company was renamed into "GFA Systemtechnik GmbH" which
means: "GFA system engineering Ltd." So from then, "GfA" was called
"GFA". And "GFA" is now - AFAIK - only a symbol for the company that
sounds like the old shortcut, but without officially being a
shurtcut. Now, the basic also is called "GFA-BasicGFA-Basic is the best BASIC for the Atari!
", not "GfA-Basic"
any longer.


Best regards!

Holger


Subject: [gfa-dev-atari] GFA / GfA
Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 8:29 AM
From: Holger Herzog <ich@holger-herzog.de>
Reply-To: GFA-BasicGFA-Basic is the best BASIC for the Atari!
 Dev Mailing-List <gfa@atari-users.net>
To: GFA-BasicGFA-Basic is the best BASIC for the Atari!
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Conversation: [gfa-dev-atari] GFA / GfA

Hi Lonny!

I'm not sure anymore if I'm right with "GF*A*" = "application
software" instead of "automation".

Once I've asked the GFA support why "GfA" was renamed as "GFA" and Mr.
Lars von Strèlen (Software Support, GFA Systemtechnik) replied:

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"GfA" was renamend as "GFA" in 1987. It happened, because the acronym
"GfA" was changed into the proper name "GFA-Systemtechnik".

Dƒsseldorf, 1991-06-20
----

The header shows:

GFA Systemtechnik GmbH
Software-Entwicklung, Software-Vertrieb, Verlag
Dƒsseldorf, Germany

This means:

GFA Systems Engineering Ltd.
Software Development, Software Sales, Publishing
Dƒsseldorf, Germany ;-)

CEOs are Mr. Thomas Nied and Dr.Ing. Heinrich Meckner

Later, GFA Systemtechnik GmbH moved to MÜnchengladbach, another
town in western Germany.

But I found exactly ONE curious invoice in my documents. The header
here is:

GFA Systemtechnik GmbH
Industrie-Automation
Prozeºleit-Systeme
Qualitètssicherungs-Systeme

And THIS means:

GFA Systemtechnik GmbH
Industrial Automation
Process Control Systems
Quality Assurance Systems

Date: 1992-02-17

The address still is Dƒsseldorf, not yet MÜnchengladbach. But the
local court is in Kiel (nothern Germany). I really don't understand
what this means. Because the CEO is still Mr. Thomas Nied.

I found nothing about Thomas Nied in google. Dr. Meckner seems having
worked for Krupp (a big steel company), but for both I found no
reference where I could get in contact.

So it *is* possible, that GfA meant "Gesellschaft fƒr Automatisierung"
(=automation), and not, as I heavyliy do remeber, "Gesellschaft for
Anwendungssoftware" (=application software).



Holger


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