Re: PARI timeline

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

* Bill Allombert [2012-10-10 23:34]:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:54:02PM +0200, Henri.Cohen@math.u-bordeaux1.fr wrote:
> > You would have to ask the two people in question, but
> > I believe that GC was written by Christian Batut,
> > and GP by Bernardi. Second, You should add that Bernardi
> > wrote and maintained the Mac version for many years.
> > Third, you should mention that the last historical
> > version of Pari/GP before version 2, in use for quite
> > a number of years (until 1995) was 1.39.
> 
> I found an announcement for PARI 1.39. Could you check it is
> genuine ?
> 
> <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~bill/pari1.39.txt>
> "January 16, 1995 Announcement of the Pari-1.39 release"

It looks genuine.

> I also found
> <http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/mac/OLD/MacPari-1.39.README>
> "The macintosh version of Pari 1.39  has been released"
> 
> Unfortunately no date is given.

Apparently January 17th, 1995:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/sci.math.research/Announcement$20of$20the$20Pari-1.39$20release/sci.math.research/S4KZJybLHao/XJaMqzcEmWYJ

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=559491&messageID=1677821

Strange, I can't find the archives of sci.math.research anywhere :-(

Cheers,

    K.B.
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