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   9 <H1>Acknowledgments</H1>
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  12 The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
  13 contributions to Mesa over the years.
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  16 <ul>
  17 <li>Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the
  18 <A HREF="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html"
  19 target="_parent">SSEC Visualization Project</A> at the University of
  20 Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for letting him work on
  21 Mesa as part of that project.
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  24 <li>John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
  25 order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
  26 substantial piece of work.
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  29 <li>Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
  30 Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of Mesa.
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  33 <li>The <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d"
  34 target="_parent">Mesa</A>
  35 project is hosted by<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net"
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  41 <li><a href="http://www.altsoftware.com/"
  42 target="_parent">alt.software</a> contributed the Direct3D driver.
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  44 <li><b>Bernd Barsuhn</b>
  45 wrote the evaluator code for (splines, patches) in Mesa.
  46
  47 <li><b>Bernhard Tschirren</b>
  48 wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
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  50 <li><b>Bogdan Sikorski</b> wrote the GLU
  51 NURBS and polygon tessellator in Mesa.
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  53 <li><b>Charlie Wallace</b> wrote
  54 the MS-DOS driver.
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  56 <li><b>CJ Beyer</b> is the
  57 www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
  58
  59 <li><b>Darren Abbott</b> provided the OS/2 driver.
  60
  61 <li><b>David Bucciarelli</b> wrote and
  62 maintains the 3Dfx Glide driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players
  63 thank David!
  64
  65 <li><b>Gareth Hughes</b> wrote new GLU
  66 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code (now superceded by SGI SI GLU).
  67
  68 <li><b>Holger
  69 Waechtler</b> contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which accelerates
  70 vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also implemented the
  71 GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
  72
  73 <li><b>Jeroen van der Zijp</b> and
  74 <b>Thorsten
  75 Ohl</b> contributed the Xt/Motif widget code.
  76
  77 <li><b>John Stone</b> provided the
  78 multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
  79
  80 <li><b>John Watson</b> assisted with
  81 web page design.
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  83 <li><b>Josh Vanderhoof</b>
  84 contributed Intel x86 assembly code which accelerates vertex
  85 transformation in Mesa 3.x.
  86
  87 <li><b>Jouk Jansen</b>
  88 contributed and continues to maintain the VMS support.
  89
  90 <li>Karl Schultz has been maintaining the Windows driver.
  91
  92 <li><b>Keith Whitwell</b> has made
  93 extension contributions to Mesa since 1999.
  94
  95 <li><b>Kendall Bennett</b>
  96 wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
  97
  98 <li><b>Mark Kilgard</b> contributed
  99 antialiased line improvements and several extensions.
 100
 101 <li>Michael Pichler contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes
 102
 103 <li><b>Miklos Fazekas</b> wrote and
 104 maintains the Macintosh driver.
 105
 106 <li><b>Pascal
 107 Thibaudeau</b> wrote the NeXT driver.
 108
 109 <li><b>Pedro Vazquez</b> setup
 110 and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
 111
 112 <li><b>Randy Frank</b>
 113 contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes.
 114
 115 <li><b>Stefan Zivkovic</b> wrote the
 116 Amiga driver.
 117
 118 <li><b>Stephane Rehel</b> provided the
 119 Cygnus Win32 support
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 121 <li><b>Ted Jump</b> maintained the
 122 makefiles and project files for Windows 95/98/NT compilation for some time.
 123
 124 <li><b>Uwe Maurer</b> wrote the
 125 LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
 126
 127 <li><b>Victor Ng-Thow-Hing</b>
 128 wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
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 133 Apologies to anyone who's been omitted.
 134 Please send corrections and additions to Brian.
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