RTEMS Timeline Update and 25th Anniversary of First Public Commit

[Christian Mauderer]

On 14/04/2020 15:40, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:47 AM Christian Mauderer
> <christian.mauderer at embedded-brains.de
> <mailto:christian.mauderer at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello Joel,
> 
>     On 07/04/2020 22:44, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>     > Hi
>     >
>     > The RTEMS Project is rapidly approaching a major milestone -- the 25th
>     > anniversary of the oldest commit in the git repository! That
>     occurs on 4
>     > May 2020!
>     >
>     > Before that time, the source code was managed on an internal research
>     > project repository and snapshots/releases made available via ftp.
>     I know
>     > I started with the project in July 1989 and was coding nearly from the
>     > first day.
>     >
>     > With this in mind,
>     the https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/History/Timeline is
>     > sorely out of date and lacking missing entries. Multiple mission
>     > launches, addition of SMP, GSoC, GCI, and SOCIC participation, move to
>     > OSU OSL, incorporation of RTEMS Foundation, scientific
>     discoveries like
>     > the particle discovered by an Atlas detector at CERN or the famous
>     gamma
>     > ray burst from Fermi. All are missing. 
>     >
>     > Please pitch in and help. If you want to help but don't have any
>     ideas,
>     > just post back and I will try to follow up with ideas that someone
>     else
>     > can put a date on. 
>     >
>     > Thanks.
>     >
>     > --joel
> 
>     I added some small stuff (start of SMP work, main work, release numbers)
>     based on the git history (see
>     https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/History/Timeline?action=diff&version=27&old_version=25).
> 
> 
> Thanks! That's a good set of information. 
> 
> 
>     Although I'm terribly bad with dates: You said you would try to follow
>     up with ideas. If you have any where I might could help, please let
>     me know.
> 
> 
> How about these (random and before coffee/tea)
> 
> + Any cool non-space programs folks can admit to?
> + First submission from some core developers.
>     - Chris was second submitter and is in the 91-92 timeframe. We don't
> remember.
>     - Thomas first shows up in git in March 1998. 
>     - Sebastian gets a nod in July 2008. :)
> + When were some ports added?
> + When were some interesting/popular BSPs added: Zyng, Leon3, gba, etc
>     - FWIW the original PC BSP was based on DJ Delorie's go32 and pre-dates 
>       the git history. I did that on a single PC (486 with 32 MB RAM). I
> couldn't run
>       X11 and compile at the same time. I had to reboot to test. Yes it
> was uphill
>       both ways back in those days. :)
> + When were some of the original ports/BSPs removed?
>    - mvme135/136 was first BSP
>    - i386 was second port
>    - i960 was last of original 3 ports
> + Interesting features? Like libnetworking, libbsd, shell, dynamic loading?
> + The Cygnus floppy mailing:
>     https://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/people/joel/CygnusFloppyAugust1995/
> 
> This may be good as a small tasks ticket where people cross things off 
> as they get added.

I added a ticket here: https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/3952

> 
> It is amazing how much this has prodded my memory.  :)
> 
> --joel
>      
> 
> 
>     Best regards
> 
>     Christian
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