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.XS ii
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Table of Contents
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.XS iii
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Acknowledgments
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.na
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The design and implementation of the first 10 versions of X
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were primarily the work of three individuals: Robert Scheifler of the
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MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Jim Gettys of Digital
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Equipment Corporation and Ron Newman of MIT, both at MIT
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Project Athena.
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X version 11, however, is the result of the efforts of
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dozens of individuals at almost as many locations and organizations.
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At the risk of offending some of the players by exclusion,
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we would like to acknowledge some of the people who deserve special credit
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and recognition for their work on Xlib.
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Our apologies to anyone inadvertently overlooked.
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.SH
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Release 1
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Our thanks does to Ron Newman (MIT Project Athena),
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who contributed substantially to the
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design and implementation of the Version 11 Xlib interface.
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Our thanks also goes to Ralph Swick (Project Athena and Digital) who kept
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it all together for us during the early releases.
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He handled literally thousands of requests from people everywhere
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and saved the sanity of at least one of us.
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His calm good cheer was a foundation on which we could build.
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Our thanks also goes to Todd Brunhoff (Tektronix) who was ``loaned''
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to Project Athena at exactly the right moment to provide very capable
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and much-needed assistance during the alpha and beta releases.
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He was responsible for the successful integration of sources
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from multiple sites;
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we would not have had a release without him.
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Our thanks also goes to Al Mento and Al Wojtas of Digital's ULTRIX
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Documentation Group.
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With good humor and cheer,
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they took a rough draft and made it an infinitely better and more useful
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document.
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The work they have done will help many everywhere.
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We also would like to thank Hal Murray (Digital SRC) and
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Peter George (Digital VMS) who contributed much
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by proofreading the early drafts of this document.
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Our thanks also goes to Jeff Dike (Digital UEG), Tom Benson,
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Jackie Granfield, and Vince Orgovan (Digital VMS) who helped with the
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library utilities implementation;
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to Hania Gajewska (Digital UEG-WSL) who,
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along with Ellis Cohen (CMU and Siemens),
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was instrumental in the semantic design of the window manager properties;
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and to Dave Rosenthal (Sun Microsystems) who also contributed to the protocol
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and provided the sample generic color frame buffer device-dependent code.
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The alpha and beta test participants deserve special recognition and thanks
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as well.
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It is significant
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that the bug reports (and many fixes) during alpha and beta test came almost
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exclusively from just a few of the alpha testers, mostly hardware vendors
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working on product implementations of X.
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The continued public
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contribution of vendors and universities is certainly to the benefit
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of the entire X community.
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Our special thanks must go to Sam Fuller, Vice-President of Corporate
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Research at Digital, who has remained committed to the widest public
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availability of X and who made it possible to greatly supplement MIT's
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resources with the Digital staff in order to make version 11 a reality.
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Many of the people mentioned here are part of the Western
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Software Laboratory (Digital UEG-WSL) of the ULTRIX Engineering group
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and work for Smokey Wallace, who has been vital to the project's success.
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Others not mentioned here worked on the toolkit and are acknowledged
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in the X Toolkit documentation.
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Of course,
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we must particularly thank Paul Asente, formerly of Stanford University
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and now of Digital UEG-WSL, who wrote W, the predecessor to X,
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and Brian Reid, formerly of Stanford University and now of Digital WRL,
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who had much to do with W's design.
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Finally, our thanks goes to MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation,
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and IBM for providing the environment where it could happen.
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.SH
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Release 4
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Our thanks go to Jim Fulton (MIT X Consortium) for designing and
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specifying the new Xlib functions for Inter-Client Communication
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Conventions (ICCCM) support.
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We also thank Al Mento of Digital for his continued effort in
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maintaining this document and Jim Fulton and Donna Converse (MIT X Consortium)
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for their much-appreciated efforts in reviewing the changes.
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.SH
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Release 5
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The principal authors of the Input Method facilities are
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Vania Joloboff (Open Software Foundation) and Bill McMahon (Hewlett-Packard).
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The principal author of the rest of the internationalization facilities
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is Glenn Widener (Tektronix). Our thanks to them for keeping their
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sense of humor through a long and sometimes difficult design process.
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Although the words and much of the design are due to them, many others
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have contributed substantially to the design and implementation.
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Tom McFarland (HP) and Frank Rojas (IBM) deserve particular recognition
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for their contributions. Other contributors were:
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Tim Anderson (Motorola), Alka Badshah (OSF), Gabe Beged-Dov (HP),
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Chih-Chung Ko (III), Vera Cheng (III), Michael Collins (Digital),
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Walt Daniels (IBM), Noritoshi Demizu (OMRON), Keisuke Fukui (Fujitsu),
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Hitoshoi Fukumoto (Nihon Sun), Tim Greenwood (Digital), John Harvey (IBM),
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Hideki Hiura (Sun), Fred Horman (AT&T), Norikazu Kaiya (Fujitsu),
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Yuji Kamata (IBM),
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Yutaka Kataoka (Waseda University), Ranee Khubchandani (Sun), Akira Kon (NEC),
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Hiroshi Kuribayashi (OMRON), Teruhiko Kurosaka (Sun), Seiji Kuwari (OMRON),
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Sandra Martin (OSF), Narita Masahiko (Fujitsu), Masato Morisaki (NTT),
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Nelson Ng (Sun),
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Takashi Nishimura (NTT America), Makato Nishino (IBM),
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Akira Ohsone (Nihon Sun), Chris Peterson (MIT), Sam Shteingart (AT&T),
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Manish Sheth (AT&T), Muneiyoshi Suzuki (NTT), Cori Mehring (Digital),
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Shoji Sugiyama (IBM), and Eiji Tosa (IBM).
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We are deeply indebted to Tatsuya Kato (NTT),
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Hiroshi Kuribayashi (OMRON), Seiji Kuwari (OMRON), Muneiyoshi Suzuki (NTT),
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and Li Yuhong (OMRON) for producing one of the first complete
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sample implementation of the internationalization facilities, and
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Hiromu Inukai (Nihon Sun), Takashi Fujiwara (Fujitsu), Hideki Hiura (Sun),
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Yasuhiro Kawai (Oki Technosystems Laboratory), Kazunori Nishihara (Fuji Xerox),
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Masaki Takeuchi (Sony), Katsuhisa Yano (Toshiba),
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Makoto Wakamatsu (Sony Corporation) for producing the another complete
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sample implementation of the internationalization facilities.
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.LP
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The principal authors (design and implementation) of the Xcms color
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management facilities are Al Tabayoyon (Tektronix)
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and Chuck Adams (Tektronix).
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Joann Taylor (Tektronix), Bob Toole (Tektronix),
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and Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium) also
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contributed significantly to the design. Others who contributed are:
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Harold Boll (Kodak), Ken Bronstein (HP), Nancy Cam (SGI),
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Donna Converse (MIT X Consortium), Elias Israel (ISC), Deron Johnson (Sun),
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Jim King (Adobe), Ricardo Motta (HP), Chuck Peek (IBM),
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Wil Plouffe (IBM), Dave Sternlicht (MIT X Consortium), Kumar Talluri (AT&T),
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and Richard Verberg (IBM).
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.LP
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We also once again thank Al Mento of Digital for his work in formatting
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and reformatting text for this manual, and for producing man pages.
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Thanks also to Clive Feather (IXI) for proof-reading and finding a
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number of small errors.
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.SH
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Release 6
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Stephen Gildea (X Consortium) authored the threads support.
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Ovais Ashraf (Sun) and Greg Olsen (Sun) contributed substantially
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by testing the facilities and reporting bugs in a timely fashion.
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The principal authors of the internationalization facilities, including
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Input and Output Methods, are Hideki Hiura (SunSoft) and
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Shigeru Yamada (Fujitsu OSSI).
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Although the words and much of the design are due to them, many others
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have contributed substantially to the design and implementation.
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They are: Takashi Fujiwara (Fujitsu), Yoshio Horiuchi (IBM),
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Makoto Inada (Digital), Hiromu Inukai (Nihon SunSoft),
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Song JaeKyung (KAIST), Franky Ling (Digital), Tom McFarland (HP),
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Hiroyuki Miyamoto (Digital), Masahiko Narita (Fujitsu),
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Frank Rojas (IBM), Hidetoshi Tajima (HP), Masaki Takeuchi (Sony),
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Makoto Wakamatsu (Sony), Masaki Wakao (IBM), Katsuhisa Yano(Toshiba) and
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Jinsoo Yoon (KAIST).
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The principal producers of the sample implementation of the
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internationalization facilities are:
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Jeffrey Bloomfield (Fujitsu OSSI), Takashi Fujiwara (Fujitsu),
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Hideki Hiura (SunSoft), Yoshio Horiuchi (IBM),
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Makoto Inada (Digital), Hiromu Inukai (Nihon SunSoft),
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Song JaeKyung (KAIST), Riki Kawaguchi (Fujitsu),
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Franky Ling (Digital), Hiroyuki Miyamoto (Digital),
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Hidetoshi Tajima (HP), Toshimitsu Terazono (Fujitsu),
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Makoto Wakamatsu (Sony), Masaki Wakao (IBM),
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Shigeru Yamada (Fujitsu OSSI) and Katsuhisa Yano (Toshiba).
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The coordinators of the integration, testing, and release of this
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implementation of the internationalization facilities are
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Nobuyuki Tanaka (Sony) and Makoto Wakamatsu (Sony).
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Others who have contributed to the architectural design or
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testing of the sample implementation of the
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internationalization facilities are:
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Hector Chan (Digital), Michael Kung (IBM), Joseph Kwok (Digital),
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Hiroyuki Machida (Sony), Nelson Ng (SunSoft), Frank Rojas (IBM),
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Yoshiyuki Segawa (Fujitsu OSSI), Makiko Shimamura (Fujitsu),
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Shoji Sugiyama (IBM), Lining Sun (SGI), Masaki Takeuchi (Sony),
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Jinsoo Yoon (KAIST) and Akiyasu Zen (HP).
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Jim Gettys
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Cambridge Research Laboratory
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Digital Equipment Corporation
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Robert W. Scheifler
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Laboratory for Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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