--- gforth/Attic/gforth.ds 1995/12/23 16:21:57 1.28 +++ gforth/Attic/gforth.ds 1996/01/07 17:22:09 1.29 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ personal machines. This manual correspon * Emacs and Gforth:: The Gforth Mode * Internals:: Implementation details * Bugs:: How to report them -* Pedigree:: Ancestors of Gforth +* Origin:: Authors and ancestors of Gforth * Word Index:: An item for each Forth word * Node Index:: An item for each node @end menu @@ -3726,7 +3726,7 @@ used here. The paper available at it also contains numbers for some native code systems. You can find numbers for Gforth on various machines in @file{Benchres}. -@node Bugs, Pedigree, Internals, Top +@node Bugs, Origin, Internals, Top @chapter Bugs Known bugs are described in the file BUGS in the Gforth distribution. @@ -3746,8 +3746,20 @@ For a thorough guide on reporting bugs r to Report Bugs, gcc.info, GNU C Manual}. -@node Pedigree, Word Index, Bugs, Top -@chapter Pedigree +@node Origin, Word Index, Bugs, Top +@chapter Authors and Ancestors of Gforth + +@section Authors and Contributors + +The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton +Ertl. The third major author was Jens Wilke. Lennart Benschop (who also +was one of Gforth's first users, in mid-1993) and Stuart Ramsden +inspired us with their continuous feedback. Lennart Benshop contributed +@file{glosgen.fs}, while Stuart Ramsden has been working on automatic +support for calling C libraries. Helpful comments also came from Paul +Kleinrubatscher, Christian Pirker, Dirk Zoller and Marcel Hendrix. + +@section Pedigree Gforth descends from BigForth (1993) and fig-Forth. Gforth and PFE (by Dirk Zoller) will cross-fertilize each other. Of course, a significant @@ -3782,7 +3794,7 @@ H. Moore, presented at the HOPL-II confe Notices 28(3), 1993. You can find more historical and genealogical information about Forth there. -@node Word Index, Node Index, Pedigree, Top +@node Word Index, Node Index, Origin, Top @chapter Word Index This index is as incomplete as the manual. Each word is listed with