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  21.           <th colspan="3" align="center">Appendix¬†A.¬†
  22.     <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">GIMP History</span>
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  37.             <h2 class="title"><a id="gimp-introduction-history"></a>Appendix¬†A.¬†
  38.     <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">GIMP History</span>
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  46.                     <b>Revision History</b>
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  50.                   <td align="left">Revision $Revision: 2419 $</td>
  51.                   <td align="left">2006-08-02</td>
  52.                   <td align="left">romanofski</td>
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  61.           <b>Table of Contents</b>
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  65.             <span class="sect1">
  66.               <a href="gimp-introduction-history.html#gimp-introduction-history-beginning">1. 
  67.       <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The Very Beginning</span>
  68.     </a>
  69.             </span>
  70.           </dt>
  71.           <dt>
  72.             <span class="sect1">
  73.               <a href="gimp-introduction-history-early-days.html">2. 
  74.       <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The Early Days of GIMP</span>
  75.     </a>
  76.             </span>
  77.           </dt>
  78.           <dt>
  79.             <span class="sect1">
  80.               <a href="gimp-introduction-history-1-0.html">3. 
  81.       <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The One to Change the World</span>
  82.     </a>
  83.             </span>
  84.           </dt>
  85.           <dt>
  86.             <span class="sect1">
  87.               <a href="gimp-introduction-history-2-0.html">4. 
  88.     <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">Version 2.0</span>
  89.   </a>
  90.             </span>
  91.           </dt>
  92.           <dt>
  93.             <span class="sect1">
  94.               <a href="gimp-introduction-history-2-2.html">5. 
  95.     <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">What's New in GIMP 2.2?</span>
  96.   </a>
  97.             </span>
  98.           </dt>
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  105.             <div>
  106.               <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="gimp-introduction-history-beginning"></a>1.¬†
  107.       <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The Very Beginning</span>
  108.     </h2>
  109.             </div>
  110.           </div>
  111.         </div>
  112.         <p>
  113.       According to Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball, the original creators of
  114.       <acronym class="acronym">GIMP</acronym>, in their announcement of <acronym class="acronym">GIMP</acronym>
  115.       0.54:
  116.     </p>
  117.         <p>
  118.       The <acronym class="acronym">GIMP</acronym> arose from the ashes of a hideously
  119.       crafted CS164 (compilers)
  120.       class project. The setting: early morning. We were both weary from lack
  121.       of sleep and the terrible strain of programming a compiler in
  122.       LISP. The limits of our patience had long been
  123.       exceeded, and yet still the dam held.
  124.     </p>
  125.         <p>
  126.       And then it happened. Common LISP
  127.       messily dumped core when it could not allocate the 17 MB it needed to
  128.       generate a parser for a simple grammar using <span class="application">yacc</span>.
  129.       An unbelieving moment passed, there was one shared look of disgust,
  130.       and then our project was vapor. We had to write something...
  131.       <span class="emphasis"><em>ANYTHING</em></span> ... useful. Something in
  132.       C. Something that did not rely on nested lists to
  133.       represent a bitmap. Thus, the <acronym class="acronym">GIMP</acronym> was born.
  134.     </p>
  135.         <p>
  136.       Like the phoenix, glorious, new life sprung out of the burnt remnants of
  137.       LISP and <span class="application">yacc</span>. Ideas went
  138.       flying, decisions were made, the
  139.       <acronym class="acronym">GIMP</acronym> began to take form.
  140.     </p>
  141.         <p>
  142.       An image manipulation program was the consensus. A program that would at
  143.       the very least lessen the necessity of using commercial software under
  144.       ‚Äú<span class="quote">Windoze</span>‚Äù or on the ‚Äú<span class="quote">Macintoy</span>‚Äù. A program
  145.       that would provide the features missing from the other
  146.       X painting and imaging tools. A program
  147.       that would help maintain the long tradition of excellent and free
  148.       UNIX applications.
  149.     </p>
  150.         <p>
  151.       Six months later, we've reached an early beta stage. We want to release
  152.       now to start working on compatibility issues and cross-platform
  153.       stability. Also, we feel now that the program is actually usable and
  154.       would like to see other interested programmers developing plug-ins and
  155.       various file format support.
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