Tom Wickline showed me a faq page he is working on and I came upon the history of wine that I've read before but have always been curious about. This is the faq entry:
What's the history of Wine?
The Wine project started in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Bob Amstadt was the original coordinator, but turned it over fairly early on to Alexandre Julliard, who has run it ever since. The newsgroup was created in July 1994. Over the years, ports for other Unixes have been added, along with support for Win32 as Win32 applications became popular.
Also see http://www.winehq.com/about.shtml
I was curious as to whether anyone knew where Bob Amstadt went and if there were some of the "old timers" that would be willing to tell some stories of the dawn of wine development. How people looked at the project, who was around early on, big development pushes, anything people might find interesting. ;-)
Chris