Wine History

[Scott Ritchie]

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.