FlightGear history

I decided this was interesting enough to post on the announce mailing list.

In 1997, Michael Basler wrote a German language article on the status 
and future goals of the FlightGear project.  Two weeks ago, Ben Outram 
did a nice translation of this article to English (for the benefit of us 
who don't speak fluent German.)

It is very interesting to read through this article and see the 
FlightGear project through our 1997 perspective.  We were barely out of 
the starting gate back then, we were mostly young, naive, and had some 
really big ideas and no clue how much effort was in store for us.

It's interesting to look back and see how we defined the goals for our 
"little" project, and it's very interesting to see how well we have 
achieved them.  It's also interesting to see that in many areas we have 
progressed spectacularly further than we would have ever imagined back then.

I think the one goal that we have missed by the widest margin is the 
goal to be able to run on a 486-66mhz with 1-2Mb of main RAM! :-)

Original German langauge article:

    http://www.flightgear.org/Papers/Basler-1997/FSFD1_97.html

English translation:

    http://www.flightgear.org/Papers/Basler-1997/FSFD1_97_trans.doc

Enjoy!

Curt.

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Curtis Olson        http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program  http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project  http://www.flightgear.org
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