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.