[GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

[razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk]

Excellent...that's fixed for them!
Cheers
Sab

> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:40 PM,  <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk> wrote:
>> I am reading through
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_System
>> It claims:
>> "Release 7.00 was issued in May 2006 and followed up by Release 7x in
>> the
>> next three months. 7x was released in two flavors: 32-bit and 64-bit.
>> Manifold 7x was the first ever 64-bit GIS application in the industry."
>
> If we are not industry, maybe yes :p
>
>
> Changelog:
> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/ChangeLog.gz
> 2005-07-12 15:11  markus
>         * added 64bit notes
>
> 2005-07-15 11:40  markus
>         * advertise 64bit support if activated
>
> No claim that I did the work of course! It was the effort of multiple
> developers, just above traces I could easily find.
>
>> Does any know when GRASS 64-bit was first released?
>
> http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass500pre2.html
> GRASS GIS 5.0.0pre2 released 13 September 2001
> "Platforms supported by GRASS:
> Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris/Intel, Silicon Graphics Irix, HP-UX,
> DEC-Alpha, PowerPC, MacOS X, AIX, BSD, CRAY and other UNIX compliant
> platforms (32/64bit), experimentally Windows NT/2000 running Cygnus
> "
>
> ... so that was way before 2006.
>
> Markus
>