Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 23:10:13 02/11/02
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On February 12, 2002 at 00:58:12, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 >>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! You are right. It says http://www.tim-mann.org/interview.html that Tim Mann took over the development of Xboard 1.2 in 93 and.. "when Windows NT came out, around 1993, we decided that we'd better start learning about it. As a learning project, I chose to take a sizable graphical program and port it to NT, and the program I picked was xboard. In doing the port, I split the program into a frontend that knows about the operating system and window system, and a backend that knows about chess rules, chess notation, chess engines, and ICS. All of the backend was extracted from xboard, while the front end was new. I added some new features along the way, such as a new look for the main window with a menu bar instead of an array of buttons. After getting the port working on Windows, I also went back and made an X frontend with the new look. xboard and WinBoard still share all their backend code, and ...." From above,Clearly Winboard was ported later. But i think things really got interesting for xboard/winboard with the development of zippy. Aaron >Dave
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