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Product Credits

  • "UNBASIC" for TRS-80 models I, II and III.
  • "Intelliterm" for IBM PC, TRS-80 Models I, III (coauthor)
  • "6700 Standard-LISP" for Burroughs 6700/6800 mainframes (coauthor)
  • "RVIEW Line Editor" for Burroughs B20 and B25 workstations
  • "Windows-Plus" for VAX-11/750 under 4.1BSD and the PC/AT under XENIX.
  • "Rabbit 3270-Plus" for many UNIX systems (contributor)
  • "UniPress EMACS V2" for many UNIX systems (credited contributor)
  • "GNU Emacs 18.5[2-8], 19, and 20" for many UNIX systems (credited contributor)
  • "NetHack 3.0" for many UNIX systems, via USENET (credited contributor)
  • "keybind", a utility for remapping SVr3 and XENIX keyboards. (USENET)
  • "nrtools", tools for using dot-matrix printers with nroff. (USENET)
  • "spkr", a speaker-control device driver for UNIX on AT386 machines. (USENET)
  • "C-INTERCAL", an INTERCAL-to-C compiler. (USENET)
  • gud.el, interactive symbolic debugger control from EMACS (Emacs 19).
  • vc.el, a version control front-end for RCS or SCCS under EMACS (Emacs 19).
  • I wrote the IEEE reference implementation of PILOT.
  • ncurses, a freeware screen-handling library with an API compatibe with System V curses(3). (principal co-developer).
  • The InterLink multi-user UNIX BBS.
  • I maintain fetchmail, a freeware utility for retrieving and forwarding mail from POP2/POP3/IMAP mailservers.
  • keeper, the archivist's robot assistant used to maintain Sunsite.
  • I am listed in the Linux credits file.
My technical tutorial The Hitchhiker's Guide to X386 Video Timing (or, Tweaking Your Monitor Modes for Fun and Profit) is included as an official part of the XFree86 distribution of X11R6 and the high-performance SGCS X server. 

I have been an active member of the GNU project, and was principally responsible for EMACS Lisp maintenance between December 1991 and June 1993. Many of the new features in Emacs 19 were my work. 

I maintain numerous other well-regarded FAQ and HOWTO documents, including the Java-On-Linux HOWTO, the Linux Distributions HOWTO, the PC-Clone UNIX Hardware Buyer's Guide, the So You Want To Be A UNIX Wizard? FAQ (aka The Loginataka), and the How To Become A Hacker FAQ. 
  
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