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