This is a interesting thread from the GRASS (Geographic Resource Analysis Support System) GIS mail list. Apparently, Wikipedia notes that a Windows-based GIS called Manifold was the first 64-bit GIS when released in May 2006. The author of that article is apparently un-aware that GRASS started life as the Ft. Hood Environmental Information System in 1988 and was developed by the Army Corps of Engineers' Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL) at the Univ. of Illinois in Chambana for use on UNIX systems.
For more than a decade, since CERL dropped development, it has continued to grow primarily through the efforts of European developers. The main platform since then has been linux and the *BSDs, but proprietary unices were supported for a while. So, for anyone who cares, here are the pertinent selections from this thread: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > I am reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_System. It > claims: "Release 7.00 was issued in May 2006 and followed up by Release 7x > in the next three months. 7x was released in two flavors: 32-bit and > 64-bit. Manifold 7x was the first ever 64-bit GIS application in the > industry." > Does any know when GRASS 64-bit was first released? http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass500pre2.html GRASS GIS 5.0.0pre2 released 13 September 2001 "Platforms supported by GRASS: Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris/Intel, Silicon Graphics Irix, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, PowerPC, MacOS X, AIX, BSD, CRAY and other UNIX compliant platforms (32/64bit), experimentally Windows NT/2000 running Cygnus" ... so that was way before 2006. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
