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@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+-*- coding: utf-8; mode: text; -*-
 
       The programmers of old were mysterious and profound.  We
    cannot fathom their thoughts, so all we do is describe their
@@ -518,6 +519,12 @@ Daniel Barlow:
   asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets, sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix
   contrib packages.
 
+James Bielman:
+  He assisted in work on the port to the Windows operating system.
+
+Alastair Bridgewater:
+  He contributed a port of the system to the Windows operating system.
+
 Robert E. Brown:
   He has reported various bugs and submitted several patches,
   especially improving removing gratuitous efficiencies in the
@@ -552,7 +559,8 @@ Paul Dietz:
 Brian Downing:
   He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.  He
   found and fixed the cause of backtraces failing for undefined
-  functions and assembly routines.
+  functions and assembly routines. He wrote the core of SBCL's 
+  alternative interpreter-based EVAL.
 
 Miles Egan:
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
@@ -580,9 +588,23 @@ Bruno Haible:
   RATIONALIZE, replacing a less-accurate version inherited from
   primordial CMUCL.
 
+Cyrus Harmon:
+  He fixed many PPC FFI and callback bugs.  He ported Raymond Toy's
+  work on the generational garbage collector for PPC to Linux, finding
+  and fixing other SBCL bugs in the process.
+
 Matthias Hoelzl:
   He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
 
+Daisuke Homma:
+  He added support for SunOS on x86 processors.
+
+ITA Software:
+  They hired Juho Snellman as a consultant to work on improvements to 
+  SBCL, to be released into the public domain. The work they've funded
+  includes faster compilation speeds, the interpreter-based evaluator
+  and the IR2-based single-stepper.
+
 Espen S Johnsen:
   He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
 
@@ -591,6 +613,11 @@ Teemu Kalvas:
   character database, restoring the FAST-READ-CHAR optimization and
   developing external format support.
 
+Yaroslav Kavenchuk:
+  He implemented several missing features and fixed many bugs in
+  the win32 port. He also worked on external-format support for
+  SB-ALIEN.
+
 Frederik Kuivinen:
   He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
 
@@ -658,18 +685,32 @@ William ("Bill") Newman:
   updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
   rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
 
+NIIMI Satoshi:
+  He contributed a number of fixes to the FreeBSD port.
+
 Patrik Nordebo:
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
 
+Luís Oliveira:
+  He contributed to the port of SBCL to the Windows operating system,
+  particuarly in the area of FFI.
+
 Scott Parish:
   He ported SBCL to OpenBSD-with-ELF.
 
+Timothy Ritchey:
+  He implemented SB-BSD-SOCKETS support for the win32 port.
+
 Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and
   a number of MOP-related bug reports.  He also creates the official
   Debian packages of SBCL.
 
+Joshua Ross:
+  He fixed some bugs relating to foreign calls and callbacks on the
+  Linux PowerPC platform.
+
 Christophe Rhodes:
   He ported SBCL to SPARC (based on the CMUCL backend), made various
   port-related and SPARC-related changes (like *BACKEND-SUBFEATURES*),
@@ -681,7 +722,7 @@ Christophe Rhodes:
   optimizations to compiler output, and contributed in other ways as
   well.
 
-Stig Erik Sandoe:
+Stig Erik Sandø:
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
   which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
 
@@ -705,12 +746,11 @@ Nikodemus Siivola:
   besides.
 
 Juho Snellman:
-  He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash
-  function on strings, removal of unneccessary bounds checks, and
-  multiple improvements to performance of common operations on
-  bignums.  He ported and enhanced the statistical profiler written by
-  Gerd Moellmann for CMU CL.  He completed the work on the x86-64 port
-  of SBCL.
+  He provided a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements to
+  the compiler, the standard library functions, and to the garbage
+  collector. He ported and enhanced the statistical profiler written
+  by Gerd Moellmann for CMU CL. He completed the work on the x86-64
+  port of SBCL.
 
 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
@@ -750,21 +790,25 @@ Raymond Wiker:
 
 INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
 
-VJA  Vincent Arkesteijn
-MNA  Martin Atzmueller
+AB   Alastair Bridgewater
+AL   Arthur Lemmens
+APD  Alexey Dejneka
+CLH  Cyrus Harmon
+CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 DB   Daniel Barlow (also "dan")
+DFL  David Lichteblau
 DTC  Douglas Crosher
-APD  Alexey Dejneka
-PFD  Paul F. Dietz
+JES  Juho Snellman
+JRXR Joshua Ross
+MG   Gabor Melis
+MNA  Martin Atzmueller
 NJF  Nathan Froyd
-AL   Arthur Lemmens
-DFL  David Lichteblau
-RAM  Robert MacLachlan
-PRM  Pierre Mai
-WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
-CSR  Christophe Rhodes
-THS  Thiemo Seufer
 NS   Nikodemus Siivola
+PFD  Paul F. Dietz
+PRM  Pierre Mai
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski
-MG   Gabor Melis
+RAM  Robert MacLachlan
+THS  Thiemo Seufer
+VJA  Vincent Arkesteijn
+WHN  William ("Bill") Newman