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10<h1>Acknowledgments</h1>
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13The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
14contributions to Mesa over the years.
15This list is far from complete and somewhat dated, unfortunately.
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19<li>Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the
20<a href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html"
21target="_parent">SSEC Visualization Project</a> at the University of
22Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for letting him work on
23Mesa as part of that project.
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26<li>John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
27order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
28substantial piece of work.
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31<li>Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
32Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of Mesa.
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35<li>The
36<a href="http://www.mesa3d.org" target="_parent">Mesa</a>
37website is hosted by
38<a href="http://sourceforge.net" target="_parent">
39<img src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=3&type=1"
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44<li>The Mesa git repository is hosted by
45<a href="http://freedesktop.org/" target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a>.
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50<li><a href="http://www.altsoftware.com/"
51target="_parent">alt.software</a> contributed the Direct3D driver.
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53<li><b>Bernd Barsuhn</b> wrote the evaluator code for (splines,
54patches) in Mesa.
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56<li><b>Bernhard Tschirren</b> wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
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58<li><b>Bogdan Sikorski</b> wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator
59in Mesa.
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61<li><b>Charlie Wallace</b> wrote the MS-DOS driver.
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63<li><b>CJ Beyer</b> was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
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65<li><b>Darren Abbott</b> provided the OS/2 driver.
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67<li><b>David Bucciarelli</b> wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide
68driver. Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
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70<li><b>Gareth Hughes</b> wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code
71(now superceded by SGI SI GLU).
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73<li><b>Holger Waechtler</b> contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which
74accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also implemented
75the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
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77<li><b>Jeroen van der Zijp</b> and <b>Thorsten Ohl</b> contributed the
78Xt/Motif widget code.
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80<li><b>John Stone</b> provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
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82<li><b>John Watson</b> assisted with web page design.
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84<li><b>Josh Vanderhoof</b> contributed Intel x86 assembly code which
85accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
86
87<li><b>Jouk Jansen</b> contributed and continues to maintain the VMS
88support.
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90<li><b>Karl Schultz</b> has been maintaining the Windows driver.
91
92<li><b>Keith Whitwell</b> has made extension contributions to Mesa
93since 1999.
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95<li><b>Kendall Bennett</b> wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
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97<li><b>Klaus Niederkrueger</b> contributed many improvements to Mesa's
98software rasterizer.
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100<li><b>Mark Kilgard</b> contributed antialiased line improvements and
101several extensions.
102
103<li><b>Michael Pichler</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes
104
105<li><b>Miklos Fazekas</b> wrote and maintains the Macintosh driver.
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107<li><b>Pascal Thibaudeau</b> wrote the NeXT driver.
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109<li><b>Pedro Vazquez</b> setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
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111<li><b>Randy Frank</b> contributed <em>many</em> bug fixes.
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113<li><b>Stefan Zivkovic</b> wrote the Amiga driver.
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115<li><b>Stephane Rehel</b> provided the Cygnus Win32 support
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117<li><b>Ted Jump</b> maintained the
118makefiles and project files for Windows 95/98/NT compilation for some time.
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120<li><b>Uwe Maurer</b> wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
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122<li><b>Victor Ng-Thow-Hing</b> wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
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127Apologies to anyone who's been omitted.
128Please send corrections and additions to Brian.
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