Re: [EXTERNAL] History of EPICS

[Maren Purves via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

That was a great read - finally getting around to it now - , as was
Bob's later email reply, still missing Marty, and Steve Lewis as well.

EDD/DM was written by Deb Kerstiens and I ported it to Linux after she
retired, when we (at the JAC, mostly working at UKIRT at the time,
about 2002) switched from Solaris to Linux. JCMT got EPICS later and
is using MEDM. UKIRT, now operated by the University of Hawaii
Institute for Astronomy, is probably still using EDD/DM unless their
part time software person has converted it all to Python interfaces.
We, now East Asian Observatory and only operating the JCMT, still run
EPICS 3.13.8 with some 3.14.7 (for camonitor) - and as time allows
taking some stabs at EPICS 7.

Another one of the Maunakea Observatories using EPICS, these days on
RTEMS, is Gemini (at least North).

As somebody asked about commercial licenses, did Observatory Sciences
buy a commercial license or was that after it went open source? Also,
Cosylab?

Aloha,
Maren Purves
Head of Instrument and Telescope Software
East Asian Observatory / JCMT

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM Hartman, Steven via Tech-talk
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> On Feb 21, 2025, at 1:53 PM, Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
>  I might be able find an online history that the late Marty Kraimer started writing,
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> Still available on GitHub . . .
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> https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://mrkraimer.github.io/website/epicsHistory/epicsHistory.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cfCKo8vG7jBWmj2mxgCxFifVzzco7Qo6KJIsACiX0nCG1rLCEyWm7MxVzKvTEKGH5zJsj26o8qu3_Y496JFSJ5DpWu_0$ 
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> Steven Hartman
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