This should be posted to Slashdot - the number of people who haven't heard
of Firebird will be shocked by their ignorance at this news...

Yes, no?

Nige.

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From: "Martijn Tonies" <m.tonies@...>
To: <Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com>; "Firebird Devel"
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 5:57 AM
Subject: [firebird-support] Re: [Firebird-Architect] Happy Birthday
Firebird/Interbase/GDS Galaxy


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> > 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.
> >
> > Happy birthday, Firebird!
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> Congratulations with the b-day of your little software project ;-)
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> With regards,
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> Martijn Tonies
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