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1.1       root        1: .SH
                      2: Acknowledgements
                      3: .XS
                      4: Acknowledgements
                      5: .XE
                      6: .PP
                      7: X is the work of many people.
                      8: First and
                      9: foremost, Bob Scheifler of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, who
                     10: shared with me the problem of having VS100 displays without software
                     11: to make them useful.
                     12: Secondly, Paul Asente of Stanford University
                     13: and Digital's Western Research Labs (who wrote W, predecessor to X,
                     14: and is now an X contributor) and Chris Kent of Purdue University and
                     15: DECWRL who struggled to make the Vs100 useful before its time had come.
                     16: .PP
                     17: Other major contributions have been made by Tony Della Fera, Mark
                     18: Vandevoorde, Ron Newman, Yakim Martillo (MIT-Project Athena),
                     19: Doug Mink (SAO),  Shane Hartman, Stuart Malone (MIT-LCS),
                     20: Paul Johnson (MIT-LCS), and Stephen Sutphen (University of Alberta),
                     21: Eric Cooper, (CMU), and Jim Fulton (Cognition).
                     22: .PP
                     23: Both Digital's Ultrix Engineering Group and Workstation Group
                     24: must be thanked for large amounts of work on the QVSS and QDSS
                     25: impementations
                     26: and for the faith shown in an (originally) flaky research project.
                     27: .PP
                     28: Mike Braca et al. of Brown University
                     29: are responsible for the IBM RT/PC ACIS display implementation.
                     30: .PP
                     31: Dave Rosenthal, formerly of CMU's ITC, now of Sun Microsystems,
                     32: must be thanked for both many constructive comments and criticisms during
                     33: X development, and the Sun implementation.
                     34: .PP
                     35: We hope that this list of major contributors will continue to grow.
                     36: .PP
                     37: And thanks must also go to MIT,  Digital Equipment Corporation,
                     38: and IBM for providing the environment where it could happen.
                     39: .nf
                     40:                        Jim Gettys
                     41:                        Digital Equipment Corporation
                     42:                        MIT / Project Athena
                     43:                        January 28, 1986
                     44: .fi

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