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: <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/brief-history.html> It also points to Geoffrey J. Noer's USENIX paper, which indicates 1995 was the start date (which makes sense from a Win32 perspective): <http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/noer.html> -- 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/
