William J. Coldwell

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William J. "Cryo" Coldwell (a.k.a. Bill Coldwell) (born January 28, 1966 in Virginia) helped invent a global transparent HTTP cache, co-invented the CSA 40/4 Magnum single-board computer, CSA 12 Gauge, and the MacroSystems Warp Engine for the Amiga computer with Steven L. Kelsey.^{[citation needed]} He worked with Matt Dillon and Michael "Mykes" Schwartz at an Internet service provider start-up BEST Internet, which was later purchased by Verio, which was later purchased by NTT-Japan.

He has been a NetBSD developer since 1994 on the Amiga (port-amiga) and Total Impact BRiQ (port-ofppc) ports, as well as system administration lead for the NetBSD project (1995-200x). He was a prominent Amiga developer from 1985 until Commodore's bankruptcy in 1993. Misc topics that need more details:

fish disks #428 CryoUtils (misspelled "CyroUtils", by Fred Fish). a set of animation utilities for the Amiga by Cryogenic Software (from the Animation Station/3-D Professional)

"CyroUtils: Four handy animation utilities from Cryogenic Software. Includes an animation creation tool that allows you to combine selected pictures into a standard animation, an animation information tool that is used to extract certain information from a given animation, an animation combining tool that allows you to join two animations into a larger one, and an animation splitting tool that allows you to split one animation into two smaller ones. Binary only. Author: Cyrogenic Software"

Go Cryo Go - A chippy tune. 9k a MOD (file format) by U4ia (Jim Young).
Founded Cryogenic Software with Brian D. Wagner, Michael Hartman in 1984.
Founded Warped Software in 1992
Founded Warped Communications in 1995, incorporated in 1997
CryoCafe (BBS): Member of RAINet, (rain.net) with Randy Bush, Michael Galassi, Alan Batie, et al.