Hi,

out of curiosity I wondered, what the history of distributed version
control systems is.

Well, some sources mention, that Sun Teamware is distributed and uses
SCCS style deltas. SCCS was created in 1972 (wikipedia, in 1975 there is a
paper). I found a Teamware userguide from 1999. So, when was the first
version of Teamware released?

(btw, to google for $random-vcs AND history is not very effective ...)

And Bitkeeper is always mentioned as a somewhat-successor of Teamware (the
Bitkeeper dev was a Sun employer which worked at Teamware and quit at a
time to create Bitkeeper on his own, some sources say). Perhaps someone
knows a approx first release date of Bitkeeper, too (couldn't find
something about at bitkeeper.com or google).

I am posting to this general opensolaris list, because I guess that
quite some Sun developers know Teamware and to some point something
about the origin of Bitkeeper.

Best regards
Georg Sauthoff

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