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diff --git a/libX11/specs/libX11/credits.t b/libX11/specs/libX11/credits.t new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5d9909d7c --- /dev/null +++ b/libX11/specs/libX11/credits.t @@ -0,0 +1,216 @@ +.EH '''' +.OH '''' +.EF '''' +.OF '''' +.XS ii +Table of Contents +.XE +.XS iii +Acknowledgments +.XE +\& +.sp 1 +.ce 3 +\s+1\fBAcknowledgments\fP\s-1 +.sp 2 +.na +.LP +The design and implementation of the first 10 versions of X +were primarily the work of three individuals: Robert Scheifler of the +MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Jim Gettys of Digital +Equipment Corporation and Ron Newman of MIT, both at MIT +Project Athena. +X version 11, however, is the result of the efforts of +dozens of individuals at almost as many locations and organizations. +At the risk of offending some of the players by exclusion, +we would like to acknowledge some of the people who deserve special credit +and recognition for their work on Xlib. +Our apologies to anyone inadvertently overlooked. +.SH +Release 1 +.LP +Our thanks does to Ron Newman (MIT Project Athena), +who contributed substantially to the +design and implementation of the Version 11 Xlib interface. +.LP +Our thanks also goes to Ralph Swick (Project Athena and Digital) who kept +it all together for us during the early releases. +He handled literally thousands of requests from people everywhere +and saved the sanity of at least one of us. +His calm good cheer was a foundation on which we could build. +.LP +Our thanks also goes to Todd Brunhoff (Tektronix) who was ``loaned'' +to Project Athena at exactly the right moment to provide very capable +and much-needed assistance during the alpha and beta releases. +He was responsible for the successful integration of sources +from multiple sites; +we would not have had a release without him. +.LP +Our thanks also goes to Al Mento and Al Wojtas of Digital's ULTRIX +Documentation Group. +With good humor and cheer, +they took a rough draft and made it an infinitely better and more useful +document. +The work they have done will help many everywhere. +We also would like to thank Hal Murray (Digital SRC) and +Peter George (Digital VMS) who contributed much +by proofreading the early drafts of this document. +.LP +Our thanks also goes to Jeff Dike (Digital UEG), Tom Benson, +Jackie Granfield, and Vince Orgovan (Digital VMS) who helped with the +library utilities implementation; +to Hania Gajewska (Digital UEG-WSL) who, +along with Ellis Cohen (CMU and Siemens), +was instrumental in the semantic design of the window manager properties; +and to Dave Rosenthal (Sun Microsystems) who also contributed to the protocol +and provided the sample generic color frame buffer device-dependent code. +.LP +The alpha and beta test participants deserve special recognition and thanks +as well. +It is significant +that the bug reports (and many fixes) during alpha and beta test came almost +exclusively from just a few of the alpha testers, mostly hardware vendors +working on product implementations of X. +The continued public +contribution of vendors and universities is certainly to the benefit +of the entire X community. +.LP +Our special thanks must go to Sam Fuller, Vice-President of Corporate +Research at Digital, who has remained committed to the widest public +availability of X and who made it possible to greatly supplement MIT's +resources with the Digital staff in order to make version 11 a reality. +Many of the people mentioned here are part of the Western +Software Laboratory (Digital UEG-WSL) of the ULTRIX Engineering group +and work for Smokey Wallace, who has been vital to the project's success. +Others not mentioned here worked on the toolkit and are acknowledged +in the X Toolkit documentation. +.LP +Of course, +we must particularly thank Paul Asente, formerly of Stanford University +and now of Digital UEG-WSL, who wrote W, the predecessor to X, +and Brian Reid, formerly of Stanford University and now of Digital WRL, +who had much to do with W's design. +.LP +Finally, our thanks goes to MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, +and IBM for providing the environment where it could happen. +.SH +Release 4 +.LP +Our thanks go to Jim Fulton (MIT X Consortium) for designing and +specifying the new Xlib functions for Inter-Client Communication +Conventions (ICCCM) support. +.LP +We also thank Al Mento of Digital for his continued effort in +maintaining this document and Jim Fulton and Donna Converse (MIT X Consortium) +for their much-appreciated efforts in reviewing the changes. +.SH +Release 5 +.LP +The principal authors of the Input Method facilities are +Vania Joloboff (Open Software Foundation) and Bill McMahon (Hewlett-Packard). +The principal author of the rest of the internationalization facilities +is Glenn Widener (Tektronix). Our thanks to them for keeping their +sense of humor through a long and sometimes difficult design process. +Although the words and much of the design are due to them, many others +have contributed substantially to the design and implementation. +Tom McFarland (HP) and Frank Rojas (IBM) deserve particular recognition +for their contributions. Other contributors were: +Tim Anderson (Motorola), Alka Badshah (OSF), Gabe Beged-Dov (HP), +Chih-Chung Ko (III), Vera Cheng (III), Michael Collins (Digital), +Walt Daniels (IBM), Noritoshi Demizu (OMRON), Keisuke Fukui (Fujitsu), +Hitoshoi Fukumoto (Nihon Sun), Tim Greenwood (Digital), John Harvey (IBM), +Hideki Hiura (Sun), Fred Horman (AT&T), Norikazu Kaiya (Fujitsu), +Yuji Kamata (IBM), +Yutaka Kataoka (Waseda University), Ranee Khubchandani (Sun), Akira Kon (NEC), +Hiroshi Kuribayashi (OMRON), Teruhiko Kurosaka (Sun), Seiji Kuwari (OMRON), +Sandra Martin (OSF), Narita Masahiko (Fujitsu), Masato Morisaki (NTT), +Nelson Ng (Sun), +Takashi Nishimura (NTT America), Makato Nishino (IBM), +Akira Ohsone (Nihon Sun), Chris Peterson (MIT), Sam Shteingart (AT&T), +Manish Sheth (AT&T), Muneiyoshi Suzuki (NTT), Cori Mehring (Digital), +Shoji Sugiyama (IBM), and Eiji Tosa (IBM). +.LP +We are deeply indebted to Tatsuya Kato (NTT), +Hiroshi Kuribayashi (OMRON), Seiji Kuwari (OMRON), Muneiyoshi Suzuki (NTT), +and Li Yuhong (OMRON) for producing one of the first complete +sample implementation of the internationalization facilities, and +Hiromu Inukai (Nihon Sun), Takashi Fujiwara (Fujitsu), Hideki Hiura (Sun), +Yasuhiro Kawai (Oki Technosystems Laboratory), Kazunori Nishihara (Fuji Xerox), +Masaki Takeuchi (Sony), Katsuhisa Yano (Toshiba), +Makoto Wakamatsu (Sony Corporation) for producing the another complete +sample implementation of the internationalization facilities. +.LP +The principal authors (design and implementation) of the Xcms color +management facilities are Al Tabayoyon (Tektronix) +and Chuck Adams (Tektronix). +Joann Taylor (Tektronix), Bob Toole (Tektronix), +and Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium) also +contributed significantly to the design. Others who contributed are: +Harold Boll (Kodak), Ken Bronstein (HP), Nancy Cam (SGI), +Donna Converse (MIT X Consortium), Elias Israel (ISC), Deron Johnson (Sun), +Jim King (Adobe), Ricardo Motta (HP), Chuck Peek (IBM), +Wil Plouffe (IBM), Dave Sternlicht (MIT X Consortium), Kumar Talluri (AT&T), +and Richard Verberg (IBM). +.LP +We also once again thank Al Mento of Digital for his work in formatting +and reformatting text for this manual, and for producing man pages. +Thanks also to Clive Feather (IXI) for proof-reading and finding a +number of small errors. +.SH +Release 6 +.LP +Stephen Gildea (X Consortium) authored the threads support. +Ovais Ashraf (Sun) and Greg Olsen (Sun) contributed substantially +by testing the facilities and reporting bugs in a timely fashion. +.LP +The principal authors of the internationalization facilities, including +Input and Output Methods, are Hideki Hiura (SunSoft) and +Shigeru Yamada (Fujitsu OSSI). +Although the words and much of the design are due to them, many others +have contributed substantially to the design and implementation. +They are: Takashi Fujiwara (Fujitsu), Yoshio Horiuchi (IBM), +Makoto Inada (Digital), Hiromu Inukai (Nihon SunSoft), +Song JaeKyung (KAIST), Franky Ling (Digital), Tom McFarland (HP), +Hiroyuki Miyamoto (Digital), Masahiko Narita (Fujitsu), +Frank Rojas (IBM), Hidetoshi Tajima (HP), Masaki Takeuchi (Sony), +Makoto Wakamatsu (Sony), Masaki Wakao (IBM), Katsuhisa Yano(Toshiba) and +Jinsoo Yoon (KAIST). +.LP +The principal producers of the sample implementation of the +internationalization facilities are: +Jeffrey Bloomfield (Fujitsu OSSI), Takashi Fujiwara (Fujitsu), +Hideki Hiura (SunSoft), Yoshio Horiuchi (IBM), +Makoto Inada (Digital), Hiromu Inukai (Nihon SunSoft), +Song JaeKyung (KAIST), Riki Kawaguchi (Fujitsu), +Franky Ling (Digital), Hiroyuki Miyamoto (Digital), +Hidetoshi Tajima (HP), Toshimitsu Terazono (Fujitsu), +Makoto Wakamatsu (Sony), Masaki Wakao (IBM), +Shigeru Yamada (Fujitsu OSSI) and Katsuhisa Yano (Toshiba). +.LP +The coordinators of the integration, testing, and release of this +implementation of the internationalization facilities are +Nobuyuki Tanaka (Sony) and Makoto Wakamatsu (Sony). +.LP +Others who have contributed to the architectural design or +testing of the sample implementation of the +internationalization facilities are: +Hector Chan (Digital), Michael Kung (IBM), Joseph Kwok (Digital), +Hiroyuki Machida (Sony), Nelson Ng (SunSoft), Frank Rojas (IBM), +Yoshiyuki Segawa (Fujitsu OSSI), Makiko Shimamura (Fujitsu), +Shoji Sugiyama (IBM), Lining Sun (SGI), Masaki Takeuchi (Sony), +Jinsoo Yoon (KAIST) and Akiyasu Zen (HP). +.sp 2 +.LP +.Ds 0 +.TA 1.5i 3i +.ta 1.5i 3i +.R +Jim Gettys +Cambridge Research Laboratory +Digital Equipment Corporation + +Robert W. 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