QVCS
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History
QVCS was first published in 1991 as a set of command line utilities for the AmigaAmiga
The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...
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Quma ported that original Amiga product to the Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
platform in 1996. In 2000, QVCS-Pro was introduced with additional features, including support for Microsoft SCC compliant
SCC compliant
SCC compliant as applied to revision control software, means that a program uses a particular interface defined by Microsoft for Visual SourceSafe.The SCC denotes Source Code Control...
Integrated Development Environment
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
s. In 2004, the cross-platform
Cross-platform
In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...
QVCS-Enterprise product was introduced. QVCS and QVCS-Pro are written in C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
. QVCS-Enterprise is written in Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
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Features
The QVCS product family supplies version control system features similar to many other version control products on the market. The single most obvious feature that distinguishes the QVCS product family from its many commercial competitors is its low price. The products are easy to use, and require no separate administrator.QVCS and QVCS-Pro target smaller Windows only development teams. QVCS-Enterprise is a client–server application, is cross-platform, and is designed for use by distributed development teams.