X-Plane was first released by Laminar Research in 1993 for Macintosh only. The PC version, and version 2.0, was released 3 years later, in 1996. From them on, it has been growing and evolved and today we can get version 10 along with mobile (simpler) versions.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.helisimmer.com/articles/transitional-flight-from-fsx-to-x-plane/