On 04/20/2013 05:50 PM, André Hentschel wrote: > Hi, > meanwhile everyone should know that Wine turns 20 this year. AJ said in this > years Keynote we'll need to find a way to celebrate this in June. > So i did some research on this and found "Wine History" mails by Dan Kegel > from 2002 and much earlier Bob Amstadt talking about late May or early June > 1993. > The date listed on Wikipedia is July the 4th, but i was still curious about > that late May. > I think i finally found this late May (30th) discussion and want to share it: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux/7TFhxP6IUVQ/gVHAeP_ZBVUJ > > It's of course hard to tell when a project was really born, but as far as i > understand, this discussion inspired Bob to write an initial loader. > I was just 5 at this time, so maybe someone can tell some more about it? :) > >
Reading that thread, it seems that WABI was an important "Wine before Wine" -- albeit proprietary and made for SunOS (and bundling a CPU emulator!) Perhaps we should mention it in our history page.
