X Consortium, X Window System, Version 11, Release 6
7. Acknowledgements
Release 6 of X Version 11 is brought to you by X Consortium, Inc: Bob
Scheifler, Janet O'Halloran, Ralph Swick, Matt Landau, Donna Converse, Stephen
Gildea, Jay Hersh, Kaleb Keithley, Ralph Mor, Dave Wiggins, and Gary Cutbill.
Many companies and individuals have cooperated and worked extremely hard to
make this release a reality, and our thanks go out to them. You will find
many of them listed in the acknowledgements in the individual specifications.
Major implementation contributions come from Data General, Digital,
Fujitsu, HP, NCD, NCR, Omron, SGI, Sony, SunSoft, and XFree86.
Contributions were received from the follow people at various X Consortium
member companies. Each X Window System release is the work of many, many
people, and this list is surely incomplete.
- Fresco
- Mark Linton (Silicon Graphics); Chuck Price (SunSoft); Charles Brauer
(Fujitsu); Steve Churchill (Fujitsu); Steve Tang (Stanford University);
Douglas Pan (Fujitsu); Jean-Daniel Fekete (2001 S.A.)
- Xlib
- Courtney Loomis (Hewlett-Packard Company); Daniel Dardailler (Open
Software Foundation)
- Xlib internationalization
- The manager of the internationalization project is Masahiko Narita
(Fujitsu). The principal authors of Input Method Protocol document are
Hideki Hiura (SunSoft) and Masahiko Narita (Fujitsu). The principal
authors of Xlib specification Chapter 13 are Hideki Hiura (SunSoft) and
Shigeru Yamada (Fujitsu OSSI). 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). The coordinators of the integration, testing, and release
of this implementation are Nobuyuki Tanaka (Sony) and Makoto Wakamatsu
(Sony). Others who have contributed on the architectural design or the
testing of sample implementation 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).
- Xt Intrinsics
- Douglas Rand (Open Software Foundation), parameterized selections; Paul
Asente (Adobe Systems Incorporated), extension event handling; Ajay
Vohra (SunSoft), support for multithreading; Sam Chang (Novell), widget
caching research; Larry Cable (SunSoft), object allocation and change
managed set; Vania Joloboff (Open Software Foundation); Courtney Loomis
(Hewlett-Packard Company); Daniel Dardailler (Open Software Foundation);
and Ellis Cohen (Open Software Foundation). The following people
at Georgia Tech contributed the extensions for disability access:
Keith Edwards, Susan Liebeskind, Beth Mynatt, and Tom Rodriguez.
- Athena Widget Set
- Frank Sheeran (Omron Data General)
X Logical Font Description
- Paul Asente (Adobe Systems Incorporated); Nathan Meyers (Hewlett-Packard
Company); Jim Graham (Sun); Perry A. Caro (Adobe Systems Incorporated)
- Font Support Enhancments
- Nathan Meyers (Hewlett-Packard Company), implementation of matrix
enhancement, glyph caching, scalable aliases, sample authorization
protocol
- X Transport Library
- Stuart R. Anderson (AT&T Global Information Solutions)
- X Keyboard Extension
- Erik Fortune (Silicon Graphics), design and sample implementation;
Jordan Brown (Quarterdeck Office Systems); Will Walker (Digital Equipment
Corporation), AccessX portion; Mark Novak (Trace Center), AccessX portion
- Low-Bandwidth X
- Jim Fulton (Network Computing Devices); Dave Lemke (Network Computing
Devices); Dale Tonogai (Network Computing Devices); Keith Packard
(Network Computing Devices); Chris Kantarjiev (Xerox PARC)
- X Image Extension
- Bob Shelley (AGE Logic), protocol architect, lead implementation
architect; Larry Hare (AGE Logic), server implementation; Dean Verheiden
(AGE Logic), server implementation; Syd Logan (AGE Logic), xieperf;
Gary Rogers (AGE Logic), JPEG code, XIElib documentation; Ben Fahy (AGE
Logic), client and server implementation
- ICCCM
- Stuart Marks (SunSoft); Gabe Beged-Dov (Hewlett-Packard Company); Chan
Benson (Hewlett-Packard Company); Jordan Brown (Quarterdeck Office
Systems); Larry Cable (SunSoft); Ellis Cohen (Open Software Foundation);
Brian Cripe (Hewlett-Packard Company); Susan Dahlberg (Silicon Graphics);
Peter Daifuku (Silicon Graphics); Andrew deBlois (Open Software
Foundation); Clive Feather (IXI); Christian Jacobi (Xerox PARC); Bill
Janssen (Xerox PARC); Vania Joloboff (Open Software Foundation); Phil
Karlton (Silicon Graphics); Mark Manasse (Digital Equipment Corporation);
Todd Newman (Silicon Graphics); Keith Taylor (Hewlett-Packard
Company); Jim VanGilder (Digital Equipment Corporation); Mike Wexler
(Kubota Pacific); Michael Yee (Apple Computer)
- ICE
- Jordan Brown (Quarterdeck Office Systems); Vania Joloboff (Open Software
Foundation); Stuart Marks (SunSoft)
- XSMP
- Mike Wexler (Kubota Pacific); Jordan Brown (Quarterdeck Office Systems);
Ellis Cohen (Open Software Foundation); Vania Joloboff (Open
Software Foundation); Stuart Marks (SunSoft)
- SYNC Extension
- Tim Glauert (Olivetti Research Limited); Dave Carver (Digital Equipment
Corporation); Jim Gettys (Digital Equipment Corporation); Pete Snider
(Digital Equipment Corporation)
- RECORD
- Martha Zimet (Network Computing Devices); Robert Chesler (Absol-puter);
Kieron Drake (UniSoft); Marc Evans (Synergytics); Jim Fulton (Network
Computing Devices); Ken Miller (Digital Equipment Corporation)
- X Input Extension tests
- George Sachs (Hewlett-Packard Company)
- PEX
- Ken Garnett (Shographics); Cheryl Huntington (Sun Microsystems); Karl
Schultz (IBM); Jeff Stevenson (Hewlett-Packard Company); Paula Womack
(Digital Equipment Corporation)
- Multi-Buffering Extension
- Eng-Shien Wu (IBM); John Marks (Hewlett-Packard Company); Ian Elliott
(Hewlett-Packard Company)
- X server
- Milind Pansare (SunSoft), pixmap privates; Peter Daifuku (SGI), layered
window support; David Lister (Adobe Systems Incorporated), callback
manager; Ken Whaley (Kubota Pacific), thin line pixelization; Joel
McCormack (Digital Equipment Corporation), 64-bit mfb and cfb; Rob
Lembree (Digital Equipment Corporation), 64-bit mfb and cfb; Davor Matic
(MIT), xnest ddx; Nathan Meyers (Hewlett-Packard Company), font support;
Jordan Brown (Quarterdeck Office Systems), -config option;
Michael Brenner (Apple Computer), macII ddx; Thomas Roell, svga ddx
- Multi-Threaded X Server
- John A. Smith (while at Data General), team leader; H. Chiba (Omron),
ddx; Akeio Harada (Omron), ddx; Mike Haynes (Data General), dix;
Hidenobu Kanaoka (Omron), ddx; Paul Layne (Data General), dix and ddx;
Takayuki Miyake (Omron), ddx; Keith Packard (Network Computing
Devices), design; Richard Potts (Data General), dix; Sid Manning (IBM),
integration with core server; Rob Chesler (Absol-puter), integration
with core server
- xdm modular loadable greeter
- Peter Derr (Digital Equipment Corporation)
- x11perf
- Joel McCormack (Digital Equipment Corporation); Graeme Gill (Labtam
Australia); Mark Martin (CETIA)
- config
- Stuart R. Anderson (AT&T Global Information Solutions); David Brooks
(Open Software Foundation); Kendall Collett (Motorola); John Freeman
(Cray); John Freitas (Digital Equipment Corporation); Patrick E. Kane
(Motorola); Mark Kilgard (Silicon Graphics); Akira Kon (NEC); Masahiko
Narita (Fujitsu); Paul Shearer (Sequent); Mark Snitily (SGCS)
- XFree86 port
- Stuart R. Anderson (AT&T Global Information Solutions); Doug Anson;
Gertjan Akkerman; Mike Bernson; David Dawes; Marc Evans; Pascal Haible;
Matthieu Herrb; Dirk Hohndel; David Holland; Alan Hourihane; Jeffrey
Hsu; Glenn Lai; Ted Lemon; Rich Murphey; Hans Nasten; Mark Snitily;
Randy Terbush; Jon Tombs; Kees Verstoep; Paul Vixie; Mark Weaver; David
Wexelblat; Philip Wheatley; Thomas Wolfram; Orest Zborowski
- fonts
- Under xc/fonts/, the misc/ directory contains a family of fixed-width
fonts from Dale Schumacher, several Kana fonts from Sony Corporation,
two Hangul fonts from Daewoo Electronics, two Hebrew fonts from Joseph
Friedman, two cursor fonts from Digital Equipment Corporation, and cursor
and glyph fonts from Sun Microsystems. The Speedo directory contains
outline fonts contributed by Bitstream, Inc. The 75dpi and
100dpi directories contain bitmap fonts contributed by Adobe Systems,
Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bitstream, Inc., Bigelow and
Holmes, and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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