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- Acknowledgments
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- 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.
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- Our thanks does to Ron Newman (MIT Project Athena),
- who contributed substantially to the
- design and implementation of the Version 11 Xlib interface.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Finally, our thanks goes to MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation,
- and IBM for providing the environment where it could happen.
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- Our thanks go to Jim Fulton (MIT X Consortium) for designing and
- specifying the new Xlib functions for Inter-Client Communication
- Conventions (ICCCM) support.
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- 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.
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- 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),
- 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), 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).
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- We are deeply indebted to Tatsuya Kato (NTT),
- Hiroshi Kuribayashi (OMRON), Seiji Kuwari (OMRON), Muneiyoshi Suzuki (NTT),
- and Li Yuhong (OMRON) for producing the first complete
- sample implementation of the internationalization facilities.
- We are also very much indebted to Masato Morisaki (NTT) for
- coordinating the integration, testing, and release of this implementation.
- We also thank Michael Collins for his design of the ``pluggable layer''
- inside Xlib.
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- 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), Keith Packard (MIT), Chuck Peek (IBM),
- Wil Plouffe (IBM), Dave Sternlicht (MIT X Consortium), Kumar Talluri (AT&T),
- and Richard Verberg (IBM).
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- 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.
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- Jim Gettys
- Cambridge Research Laboratory
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- Laboratory for Computer Science
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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