Firebird At 20 Years

mAriuZ writes "From Jim Starkey: "September 4th is the 20th anniversary of what is now Firebird. I quit my job at DEC in August, took a three day end-of-summer holiday, and began work on September 4, 1984 in my new career as a software entrepreneur. As best as I can reconstruct, the first two files were cpre.c and cpre.h (C preprocessor), later changed to gpre.c and gpre.h. The files were created on a loaner DEC Pro/350, a PDP-11 personal computer that went exactly nowhere, running XENIX. Gpre was my first C program, XENIX was my first experience with Unix, and the Pro/350 was my very last (but not lamented) experience with PDP-11s.""

And to think...

[Anonymous Coward]

Some wankers [mozilla.org] tried to steal its name.

PhoenixFoxBird!

[orthogonal]

September 4th is the 20th anniversary of what is now Firebird./i.

It's a great browser, but I think this is a bit premature.

Uh?

[eingram]

I shouldn't even bother clicking the Developers link anymore. Besides not being a developer, usually the stories that don't make the front page have more acronyms in them than an AIM conversation between two adolescent teens.

I do like to try and stay informed, and I'm sure the story is fascinating, but I just don't get it. :)

The reason why this wasn't on the front page...

[ninejaguar]

The submitter offered the wrong quote...they should've put this one in instead:

"My second real job was with DEC. DEC was a great place to work. Near total anarchy. I put out a very successful product called Datatrieve, which, due to a stupid political ploy by a manager, got cancelled. It didn't mean a thing. I got to write a monthly report saying "Problems: The project has been cancelled. If this isn't rectified, it could affect the schedule." It really didn't make any difference. The second version shipped on schedule, still cancelled. You've got to admire a company that succeeds despite the best efforts of its management."

Classic.

= 9J =