1Acknowledgements
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3
4The following individuals and groups are to be acknowledged for their
5contributions to Mesa over the years. This list is far from complete and
6somewhat dated, unfortunately.
7
8-  Early Mesa development was done while Brian was part of the `SSEC
9   Visualization Project <https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html>`__
10   at the University of Wisconsin. He'd like to thank Bill Hibbard for
11   letting him work on Mesa as part of that project.
12-  John Carmack of id Software, Inc. funded Keith Whitwell in 1999 in
13   order to optimize Mesa's vertex transformation module. This is a very
14   substantial piece of work.
15-  Precision Insight, Inc., VA Linux Systems, Inc., and most recently,
16   Tungsten Graphics, Inc. have supported the ongoing development of
17   Mesa.
18-  The `Mesa <https://www.mesa3d.org>`__ website and Git repository are
19   hosted by `freedesktop.org <https://freedesktop.org/>`__.
20-  `alt.software <http://web.archive.org/web/20131110021426/http://www.altsoftware.com/>`__
21   contributed the Direct3D driver.
22-  **Bernd Barsuhn** wrote the evaluator code for (splines, patches) in
23   Mesa.
24-  **Bernhard Tschirren** wrote the Allegro DJGPP driver.
25-  **Bogdan Sikorski** wrote the GLU NURBS and polygon tessellator in
26   Mesa.
27-  **Charlie Wallace** wrote the MS-DOS driver.
28-  **CJ Beyer** was the www.mesa3d.org webmaster.
29-  **Darren Abbott** provided the OS/2 driver.
30-  **David Bucciarelli** wrote and maintained the 3Dfx Glide driver.
31   Thousands of Linux/Quake players thank David!
32-  **Gareth Hughes** wrote new GLU 1.2 Polygon Tessellation code (now
33   superseded by SGI SI GLU).
34-  **Holger Waechtler** contributed AMD 3DNow! assembly code which
35   accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.1. Holger also
36   implemented the GL_EXT_texture_env_combine extension.
37-  **Jeroen van der Zijp** and **Thorsten Ohl** contributed the Xt/Motif
38   widget code.
39-  **John Stone** provided the multi-threading support in Mesa 3.0.
40-  **John Watson** assisted with web page design.
41-  **Josh Vanderhoof** contributed Intel x86 assembly code which
42   accelerates vertex transformation in Mesa 3.x.
43-  **Jouk Jansen** contributed and continues to maintain the VMS
44   support.
45-  **Karl Schultz** has been maintaining the Windows driver.
46-  **Keith Whitwell** has made extension contributions to Mesa since
47   1999.
48-  **Kendall Bennett** wrote the SciTech MGL driver.
49-  **Klaus Niederkrueger** contributed many improvements to Mesa's
50   software rasterizer.
51-  **Mark Kilgard** contributed antialiased line improvements and
52   several extensions.
53-  **Michael Pichler** contributed *many* bug fixes
54-  **Miklos Fazekas** wrote and maintains the Macintosh driver.
55-  **Pascal Thibaudeau** wrote the NeXT driver.
56-  **Pedro Vazquez** setup and maintains the Mesa Mailing list.
57-  **Randy Frank** contributed *many* bug fixes.
58-  **Stefan Zivkovic** wrote the Amiga driver.
59-  **Stephane Rehel** provided the Cygnus Win32 support
60-  **Ted Jump** maintained the makefiles and project files for Windows
61   95/98/NT compilation for some time.
62-  **Uwe Maurer** wrote the LibGGI driver for Mesa-3.0.
63-  **Victor Ng-Thow-Hing** wrote the Amiwin driver for the Amiga.
64
65Apologies to anyone who's been omitted. Please send corrections and
66additions to Brian.
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