Xlib − C Language X Interface

AcknowledgmentsThe design and implementation of the first 10 versions of X were primarily the work of threeindividuals: Robert Scheifler of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Jim Gettys of DigitalEquipment Corporation and Ron Newman of MIT, both at MIT Project Athena. Xversion 11,however, is the result of the efforts of dozens of individuals at almost as many locations andorganizations. At the risk of offending some of the players by exclusion, we would like toacknowledge some of the people who deserve special credit and recognition for their work onXlib. Our apologies to anyone inadvertently overlooked.Release 1Our thanks does to Ron Newman (MIT Project Athena), who contributed substantially to thedesign and implementation of the Version 11 Xlib interface.Our thanks also goes to Ralph Swick (Project Athena and Digital) who kept it all together for usduring the early releases. He handled literally thousands of requests from people everywhere andsaved the sanity of at least one of us. His calm good cheer was a foundation on which we couldbuild.Our thanks also goes to Todd Brunhoff (Tektronix) who was ‘‘loaned’’ toProject Athena atexactly the right moment to provide very capable and much-needed assistance during the alphaand beta releases. He was responsible for the successful integration of sources from multiplesites; we would not have had a release without him.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 usefuldocument. The work they have done will help many everywhere. We also would like tothankHal Murray (Digital SRC) and Peter George (Digital VMS) who contributed much by proofreadingthe early drafts of this document.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 (DigitalUEG-WSL) who, along with Ellis Cohen (CMU and Siemens), was instrumental in thesemantic 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 devicedependentcode.The alpha and beta test participants deserve special recognition and thanks as well. It is significantthat the bug reports (and many fixes) during alpha and beta test came almost exclusivelyfrom just a few ofthe alpha testers, mostly hardware vendors working on product implementationsof X. The continued public contribution of vendors and universities is certainly to the benefitof the entire X community.Our special thanks must go to Sam Fuller, Vice-President of Corporate Research at Digital, whohas remained committed to the widest public availability of X and who made it possible to greatlysupplement MIT’s resources with the Digital staff inorder to make version 11 a reality. Many ofthe people mentioned here are part of the Western Software Laboratory (Digital UEG-WSL) ofthe ULTRIX Engineering group and work for Smokey Wallace, who has been vital to theproject’s success. Others not mentioned here worked on the toolkit and are acknowledged in theXToolkit documentation.