History

Just to set the record straight, and give credit where it is due, the original proposal for this protocol was made by Moshe Braner in an Usenet article sometime in 1988 (or was it 87, I do not remember). The proposal was worked over by Julian Reschke in consultation with Edgar Röeder in Germany, where it ended up in the present form. Julian Reschke has since been its chief spokesman, and clearing house for registering unique XBRA identifiers. Atari Germany adopted XBRA as an ``official'' standard in 1989 but didn't do anything to push it. XBRA as I know it, came back to me from Germany in the form of an include file for the Gnu C library, thanks to Edgar Röeder. In case you are wondering XBRA is an abbreviation for eXtended BRAner protocol.