History
Electric was written in the C programming language in the early 1980s (the earliest internal memo on Electric is dated November 19, 1982; the first published paper on Electric is "An Integrated Aid for Top-Down Electrical Design", Proceedings, ICCAD-83, IEEE Computer Society Order No 518, September 1983). For some time after that, Electric was distributed free of charge to universities and research institutions, and found widespread international use.
In the mid 1980s, Electric was sold commercially by Applicon, under the name "Bravo3VLSI".
In 1988, Electric Editor Incorporated was founded, and sold the system commercially. The company released the source code through the Free Software Foundation in 1998.
In 2000, Static Free Software was created to manage Electric's distribution.
In September, 2003 the C version of Electric was abandoned, and the system was translated into the Java language. The work was completed in June, 2005. Although the C code is still available, it is no longer developed or supported. The new and improved Java code remains free to all users.
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