Ahead, Warp Factor 1.

On Wednesday February 6th, Chris Cason and I will be recording a 
FLOSS-Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz about POV-Ray.

	http://twit.tv/FLOSS

In preparation for that, I've been trying to confirm the timeline behind 
  POV-Ray.  I'm afraid my original dates in the Early History of POV-Ray 
are incorrect.  Here's what I have:

1987	- DKBTrace 1.0 released
	- it's very hard to tell exactly when - I have few records
	  and any data is on an Amiga that doesn't work any more.
December 11, 1990	- DKBTrace 2.0 released
March 7, 1991		- POVRay project proposed
July 20, 1991		- DKBTrace 2.12 released.  POV-Ray development begins

Depending on whether you want to count DKBTrace or POV-Ray as the 
original birthday, POVRay is now either 20 years old this year or 16.

I'll try to get the dates in the POVRay documentation corrected.

David Buck


Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am making herewith the request to use some slogan like the following one, 
> in order to show the spirit of the render software POV-Ray (will become 20 
> years old in 2009!!!):
> ...
> And I am sure, when the first kiss between a human and an alien happens, 
> David Kirk Buck, Aaron Collins or Christopher Cason or any other of the 
> long-eared, deeply logically thinking POV programmers will appear from 
> behind some corner, and try to teach the alien the way how to use POV-Ray...
> 
> Sven

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