Who wrote XTERM?
I’ve been working on xterm since early 1996 (see my changelog for details). But the program is much older than that. A lot of people, cited at the bottom of the manual page wrote the original xterm program, maintained by the X Consortium (later part of the Open Group – I’m well aware of the distinction, but am citing when the work was done, not who the current owner may be). There is no changelog, and it is not clear who did what. Email from Jim Gettys provides some background: Cast of thousands… To give a bit of history, xterm predates X! It was originally written as a stand-alone terminal emulator for the VS100 by Mark Vandevoorde, as my coop student the summer that X started. Part way through the summer, it became clear that X was more useful than trying to do a stand alone program, so I had him retarget it to X. Part of why xterm’s internals are so horrifying is that it was originally intended that a single process be able to drive multiple VS100 displays. Don’t hold this against
A lot of people, cited at the bottom of the manual page wrote the original xterm program, maintained by the X Consortium (now part of the Open Group). There is no changelog, and it is not clear who did what. Email from Jim Gettys provides some background: Cast of thousands… To give a bit of history, xterm predates X! It was originally written as a stand-alone terminal emulator for the VS100 by Mark Vandevoorde, as my coop student the summer that X started. Part way through the summer, it became clear that X was more useful than trying to do a stand alone program, so I had him retarget it to X. Part of why xterm’s internals are so horrifying is that it was originally intended that a single process be able to drive multiple VS100 displays. Don’t hold this against Mark; it isn’t his fault. I then did a lot of hacking on it, and merged several improved versions from others back in. Notable improvements include the proper ANSI parser, that Bob McNamara did. The Tek 4010 support came from
