Some History of GAP
Although, fortunately, GAP is not yet part of history,
we have kept a few documents marking steps of its development.
In particular, the prefaces of the manuals of the various releases
sketch the respective progress. We present here links to (relevant
extracts from) these prefaces as well as to some 'interim reports'
that appeared in the GAP Forum. (For recent developments see the
Release history.)
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Preface for
GAP 2.4, the first publically
released version of GAP (JN, December 1988)
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Preface for
GAP 3.1 (JN, March 1991)
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From the preface for
GAP 3.2
(JN, January 1993)
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Preface for
GAP 3.4.3, the last
GAP 3 release from Aachen (JN, June 1994)
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Interim Report
GAP, 1997, me and all that
(JN, June 1995)
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Interim Report
Organizing GAP (JN, December 1995)
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Interim Report
A European summer of CGT '97
(JN, July 1996)
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Interim Report
WWW pages and refereeing
(SL + JN, September 1996)
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From the preface for
GAP 3.4.4
(SL, April 1997)
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Interim Report
Move of GAP addresses
(JN, June 1997)
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Forum letter
Contributions to GAP (CW, July 1997)
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From the preface for
GAP 4.B.1, the first beta
release of GAP 4 (JN, July 1997)
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From the preface for
GAP 4.1 (SL, July 1999)
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Preface for
GAP 4.3 (SL, May 2002)
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Preface for
GAP 4.4 (AH, March 2004)
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Preface for
GAP 4.5
(June 2012)
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