From c196fdc036ab718822c4abadbd76b5ef684967e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars-Dominik Braun Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:40:02 +0200 Subject: Add more history, trivia and move to separate files --- history.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'history.rst') diff --git a/history.rst b/history.rst index 853b8d3..cf3dfd0 100644 --- a/history.rst +++ b/history.rst @@ -27,8 +27,28 @@ A year later, in 1979, details about EUMEL were published in GMD Spiegel [kloeckner79]_. Officially the cooperation between HRZ Bielefeld and GMD began in fall 1979 [gmdspiegel85d]_. +The original ELAN compiler written by Liedtke and Bartling was replaced by in +1982 as part of project MIKROS at GMD. Its replacement was written in CDL’s +successor, CDL2 [gmdbericht84]_. This work resulted in ports of EUMEL to +different processor architectures, starting with Olivetti M 20’s Zilog 8001. +This version was presented a year later at Hannover Messe 1983 +[computerwoche83a]_ [rechenanlagen83]_. + +For their efforts to `transfer EUMEL to Japan`_ a delegation consisting of +Konrad Klöckner, Jochen Liedtke, Peter Heyderhoff, Dietmar Heinrichs and Uwe +Beyer received the *Technologie-Transfer-Preis* worth 15.000 DM by Minister of +Scientific Research Heinz Riesenhuber on 1985-12-09. [happycomputer86]_ +[gmdspiegel85d]_ [generalanzeiger85]_ + +Another two years later, in October 1987, the spin-off company ERGOS (Ergonomic +Office Software GmbH) finally started marketing EUMEL to customers. GMD was +still responsible for development and maintenance of EUMEL and schulis until +1990 [gmdspiegel87c]_. + .. [#] See [gmdspiegel85a]_, [liedtke93]_, [gmdbericht84]_, [ambros90b]_ and [praxis1]_ +.. _transfer EUMEL to Japan: popularity_ + Releases ^^^^^^^^ -- cgit v1.2.3