History
Group Talisman, also known as Talisman Research, was founded in 1986 or so by
Christopher Alexander North-Keys
and David Weinstein at the
University of Texas at Austin
in an attempt to gain access to more disk space than the 1 MB currently
allotted to the average user at that time.
In the following years, four more people joined, and several others are
currently associated with the group.
Our members have created several interesting pieces of software, including
- Ytalk - a more-than-two-user talk program.
- X++ - a complete reimplementation of the client side of X in C++.
- Talisman Color Database - 10762 named colors in RGBi for X11.
- Xcmdpanel and Xcmdmenu - part of the BSDI distribution.
- Xancur - a cursor animation program, also in BSDI.
- An 1.8 million word password cracking dictionary for use with:
- Password - which hamstrings attempts to use Crack.
We have also made extensive investigations into security problems
with the coöperation of the University of Texas Computation Center
Unix staff.
As a complication, other Internet-connection organizations
have since taken names based on the same base word, giving a current list of:
- Talisman (domain talisman.org), which is us.
- Talisman Dynamics (domain tal.com)
- Talisman Group (in Colorado) (domain talisman.com)
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