Firebird at 20 years
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From Jim Starkey: "September 4th is the 20th anniversary of what is now Firebird. I quit my job at DEC in August, took a three day end-of-summer holiday, and began work on September 4, 1984 in my new career as a software entrepreneur. As best as I can reconstruct, the first two files were cpre.c and cpre.h (C preprocessor), later changed to gpre.c and gpre.h.
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From Jim
Starkey: "September 4th is the 20th anniversary of what is now Firebird. I quit my job at DEC
in August, took a three day end-of-summer holiday, and began work on
September 4, 1984 in my new career as a software entrepreneur. As best
as I can reconstruct, the first two files were cpre.c and cpre.h (C
preprocessor), later changed to gpre.c
and gpre.h.
The files were created on a loaner DEC Pro/350,
a PDP-11 personal computer that
went exactly nowhere, running XENIX. Gpre was my first
C program, XENIX was my first experience with Unix, and the Pro/350 was
my very last (but not lamented) experience with PDP-11s." |
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