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Ultima Thule (lit. Utmost North) is a cave outside the town of Vadsø
in Northern Norway. In the middle ages this cave was believed to be
the (small) devils entrance to our world. The Vatican even sent a
monk to actually count the number of devils gaining access to
this world through Ultima Thule, and the number he came up with after
witnessing the phenomena was staggering. Ultima Thule was without
doubt the main entrance for evil.
When we started our small software development team in Hammerfest, the Northernmost Town in the World (or at least pretty north-ish:) we spent a good time searching for a striking name. After some |
discussion, we settled for Ultima Thule Software. Not with anything
particularly evil in mind, but it is after all a pretty striking name.
After our initial problems with finding a name, the next was finding some
project to code. When some of our members bought themselves Amiga
3000's, they discovered anomalies with the most used Offline-reader,
Amiga ReadMail (by the author of NComm). We were heavily
into BBSing at the time, and ARM was not very advanced. Leo
(Eivind Nordseth) then came up with the bright idea of developing an
Offline-reader with something not widely in use on the Amiga at the time:
History. So the develoment on THOR started and was the first
program made by Ultima Thule Software.
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