
The following people have contributed to the Portable Object Compiler :

*  Overall implementation,documentation,UNIX ports by me (David Stes).
   (objc1.1.1 was released for SunOS,Solaris,HP-UX,AIX,IRIX,OSF1,Linux,NeXT)
*  Computer Algebra Kit concept 1992-1993 by David Stes & Paul Janssens
*  C messenger & auto initialization code by Kenneth Lerman.
*  Brad Cox sent hints by e-mail about ObjectPak, and expressed his support
*  Inline Cache messenger implemented by David Stes (Ken Lerman suggestion)
*  Scott Hess (shess@one.net,scott@doubleu.com) profiled -inlinecache
   and found it was in the best case up to twice as fast as NeXT _msgSend().
*  SGI PowerChallenge version using MIPSpro 7 cc (64bit) by me (David Stes)
*  Chuck Robey (chuckr@glue.umd.edu) does the FreeBSD version.
*  Thomas Breuel (tmb@aimnet.com) reported and helped to fix various bugs
*  WATCOM C/C++ 11.0 Port to Windows95 by me (David Stes)
*  PowerMac / MkLinux port by Tsu-chien Weng (david@helium.ch.ntu.edu.tw)
*  -gc flag by David Stes, using Boehm package.
*  Block class by me, after Action Expression paper of Brad Cox.
*  MPW MWCPPC port by me
*  OS/2 Warp 4 port VisualAge by Paul Bernard (prb@Thinkage.On.CA)
*  WATCOM C/C++ 10.0 porting changes by Ronny West (ronny@rat.se)
*  NetBSD Intel version by Peter Simons (simons@rhein.de)
*  dynamic loading modules by stes, some input from Marko Mikulicic.
*  Block 1.7.1 review by K.Lerman, reimplementation by stes.
*  BeOS port by Fred Fish fnf@fishpond.ninemoons.com, and indepedently 
   by Osma Ahvenlampi (oa@iki.fi)
*  MS Visual C port by Serge Broslavsky (bros@dan.lv)
*  Amiga OS port (using gcc for Amiga OS) by Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
*  CVS server and mailing list by Peter Simons (simons@rhein.de)
*  Cray UNICOS port by Dima Pasechnik (dima@duti515a.twi.tudelft.nl)
*  NetBSD Amiga version by Martin Hauner (hauner@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
*  Linux/Alpha bootstrap by Jeff Sturm (jsturm@zenacomp.com)
*  MachTen (mac) PPC port by Perrone Alessandro <alex@unive.it>
*  BEOS BeWare package + bug reports and help Kim Shrier (kim@tinker.com)
*  forwarding C messenger (-noFwd) by me, based on some discussion with k.l.

