HISTORY

* wxWindows was started in 1992 at the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute , University of Edinburgh, by Julian Smart .

* Julian was designing a kind of meta-CASE tool called Hardy which needed to run on Windows as well as X-based Unix workstations. The existing commercial cross-platform tools were deemed too expensive for an in-house experimental project, so the only alternative was to build one. wxWindows (w for Windows, x for X) started off with support for XView and MFC 1.0, and AIAI allowed it to be released to the Internet.

* Over time, a small but enthusiastic community of wxWindows users was established and a mailing list set up. Contributions and fixes were sent in, it gradually picked up more and more users from all over the world: commercial, government, and - most gratifying of all - company users who found that wxWindows offered a better product, and better support, than the commercial products they had looked at or used.

* Towards the end of 1997, Julian Smart started distributing a CD-ROM of wxWindows.