Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:18:09 -0600 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: A bit of history Message-ID: <20040305181809.A18989@ns1.iocc.com> References: <16456.51502.882000.98587@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <6.0.1.1.0.20040305140209.03d14a80@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040305140209.03d14a80@127.0.0.1>; from cygwin-lh@cygwin.com on Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:11:04PM -0500 On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:11:04PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: > At 01:38 PM 3/5/2004, you wrote: > >When was the Cygwin project started? I know that I started using > >Cygwin somehwere around 1992. > > > >I thought it was good then, I think it is incredible now. > > If you were using it in 1992, then you probably know more history than > most others on this list. I've only been using it since 1995 with > b12 and b13. But I remember seeing a brief summary of the complete > history at one time but what would seem to be the obvious pointer on > the main page doesn't point to what I remember (points to the FAQ > instead for some reason). Anyway, as I recall, it went all the way back > to b1, though I don't know when Cygnus started distributing it publicly > (it was originally used internally to help with ports). There's a little history section in the User's Guide: It also points to Geoffrey J. Noer's USENIX paper, which indicates 1995 was the start date (which makes sense from a Win32 perspective): -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/