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<h2> pcb-rnd History </h2>
<p>pcb-rnd is a rapid moving independent project started in 2013, but roots
tracing back to the early 90s, to PCB.
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From the pcb.html documentation:
<pre><i>
<code>Pcb</code> was first written by Thomas Nau for an
Atari ST in 1990 and ported to <code>UNIX</code> and <code>X11</code> in
1994. It was not intended as a professional layout system, but as a tool
which supports people who do some home-developing of hardware.
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<p>In Fall 2013, Tibor 'Igor2' Palinkas started an
<a href="../../motivation.html">unofficial fork of PCB</a> to make and
share <i>random</i> changes and improvements (hence the name "-rnd"). Over
the following years the fork was officially announced, adopted additional
users, and reached various milestones, including modularization of the code
base, a better configuration system.
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In 2015, the project switched pace: lot of hours invested and many new developers
and contributors joined, pcb-rnd started to grow rapidly. Most of the code base
has been extended, cleaned up or rewritten.
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In 2016 and 2017 pcb-rnd went on growig in number of developers, contributors
and users. The number of long standing bugs and misfeatures fixed and missing
features implemented grew a lot too. This affected major components
as the plugin system, the I/O (file format support) subsystem and even the
data model pcb-rnd operates on.
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At the moment, pcb-rnd is not part of any EDA suite.
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A more complete history can be found in the
<a href="http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-history/">pcb-history</a> project.
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