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Subject: Re: Timeline of significant Xboard/Winboard events.

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 21:58:12 02/11/02

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On February 11, 2002 at 08:06:22, Aaron Tay wrote:

>I've created a timeline stretching from 93 (where Tim Mann took over as the
>maintainer of Xboard) to 2002/current about what i feel are the significant
>events in the development of the xboard/Winboard protocol
>
>http://www.chesskit.com/aarontay/Winboard/timeline.html
>
>It covers events such as the creation of zippy, the first few free
>xboard/Winboard engine, the release of commercial winboard engines, protover II,
>the rise in popularity of the standard as other commercial interfaces adopt the
>standard up to recent events with Fritz supporting UCI and removing the adaptor
>from the site.
>
>Any comments (any thing i left out?), corrections are welcome
>
>Aaron

One major correction (if I am not wrong myself!! :-) is that XBoard was around
for years before it was ported to Win32 (WinBoard).  But check with someone who
actually knows for sure!

Dave



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