Re: History of EPICS

["Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Patrick,

 

There was a retrospective paper MOCPR02 at the 2019 ICALEPCS conference by Bob Dalesio, lots of background information there. I might be able find an online history that the late Marty Kraimer started writing, but I don't have time to find it today.

 

You can find version release dates on the EPICS Base Downloads pages here or here, but they are for the Core software only. As we are a distributed collaboration the other software is spread all over the internet…

 

HTH,

 

- Andrew

 

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On 2/21/25, 12:17 PM, "Tech-talk" <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

 

Hi Everyone,

 

I am preparing a little introductory talk on EPICS, including a little history. I used the paper "EPICS: A Control System Software Co-Development Success Story" by Marty Knott et. al. But struggle to find something about the development past 1993. So I hope some members of the community might be able to help. Here are some concrete questions:

1.) Who joined the EPICS collaboration after the JLab? (And when?)

2.) Apart from Kinetic Systems, Tate Integrated Systems, and Titan Corp., did anybody else buy the commercial license?

3.) When was the switch to the open license?

4.) Is there a timeline for the publishing of the versions?

5.) Are there some other important milestones, i.e. first version that runs on an x86?

 

This is not crucial to my talk, but it would be nice, if my history of EPICS would not abruptly stop after 1993.

 

Thanks,

 

Dr. Patrick Nonn
LLRF-Experte | Maschine Strahlkontrolle (MSK)

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