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authorLars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>2016-09-18 18:59:41 +0200
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Moving it to section trivia later. Unsourced.
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Not just a footnote of history: EUMEL
=====================================
-:date: 2016-09-09
+:date: |today|
:copyright: CC0_ (this page)
+.. |today| date:: %Y-%m-%d
+
.. _CC0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
.. note::
@@ -14,10 +16,11 @@ Not just a footnote of history: EUMEL
.. _GitHub: https://github.com/PromyLOPh/eumel/issues
-The *E*\ xtendable multi *u*\ ser *m*\ icroprocessor *EL*\ AN system (EUMEL) is
-a microkernel-based operating system created in the 1980s. It is sometimes
-refered to as *Liedtke 2* (L2), named after its inventor Jochen Liedtke. L3,
-EUMEL’s successor, is still in use by a few legacy systems as of 2016.
+The *Extendable multi user microprocessor ELAN system (EUMEL)* is a microkernel
+operating system. *Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD)* and
+*Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ)* of Bielefeld University created and developed it
+between 1978 and 1990. L3, EUMEL’s successor, is still in use by a few legacy
+systems as of 2016.
.. contents::