Re: [netcdfgroup] How old is NetCDF?

Where's the party?!

gerry

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Dennis Heimbigner <dmh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We should have a 26th birthday this year :-)
> =Dennis
>
> Russ Rew wrote:
>
>> Hi Jennifer,
>>
>> Glenn Davis and I developed and released netCDF 1.0 in June, 1989.
>>
>> Here's a brief description
>> <https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/background.html> of the
>>
>> background and evolution of the netCDF C interface, mentioning how others
>> were involved (Lloyd Treinish, Michael Gough, Dave Raymond, Joe Fahle,
>> Angel Li, and Dave Fulker). I still have a printed copy of the original
>> user guide, published as NCAR Technical Note TN-334+1A, from June 1989,
>> "netCDF User'sGuide, An Interface for Data Access, Version 1.0"
>>
>> I sent an earlier email proposing the first Unidata netCDF C interface
>> specification for comments in September 1988, before Glenn and I
>> implemented the software it described, but I no longer have a copy of that
>> email.
>>
>> --Russ
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Jennifer Adams <jma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Does anybody out there know when the very first version of netCDF was
>>> released?
>>>
>>> The release notes go back to version 3.3, released 1997-05-15, but there
>>> is reference to netCDF-2, and I was just curious about when netCDF was
>>> born.
>>> —Jennifer
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jennifer M. Adams
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>>> George Mason University
>>> 4400 University Drive
>>> Fairfax, VA 22030
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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