Acknowledgements

Many people have further contributed to MDK by reporting problems, suggesting various improvements, or submitting actual code. Here is a list of these people. Please, help me keep it complete and exempt of errors.

• Philip Ellis King provided MIXAL test programs pinpointing bugs in the first MDK release, and useful discussions as well. Philip has also contributed with the Emacs port of mixvm and influenced the gmixvm GUI design with insightful comments and prototypes.
• Aleix Conchillo has been following MDK’s development for many years, indefatigably chasing and fixing bugs, and suggesting many improvements. He’s also the original author of the Fink and Macports ports.
• Pieter E J Pareit is the author of the Emacs MIXAL mode, and has also contributed many bug fixes.
• Michael Scholz is the author of the German translation of MDK’s user interface.
• Sergey Poznyakoff provided patches to mixlib/mix_scanner.l improving MIXAL compliance.
• Sergey Litvin implemented the instructions SLB, SRB, JAE, JAO, JXE, and JXO from volume 2 of TAOCP.
• Francesc Xavier Noria kindly and thoroughly reviewed the MDK documentation, providing insightful advice.
• Eric S. Raymond contributed the documentation file MIX.DOC and the samples elevator.mixal and mistery.mixal from his MIXAL package.
• Nelson H. F. Beebe has tested MDK in a lot of Unix platforms, suggesting portability enhancements to the source code.
• Ryan Schmidt, Agustin Navarro, Ying-Chieh Liao, Adrian Bunk, Baruch Even, and Ronald Cole ported MDK to different platforms, and created and/or maintain packages for it.
• Jason Uhlenkott, Andrew Hood, Radu Butnaru, Ruslan Batdalov, WeiZheng, Sascha Wilde, Michael Vernov and Xiaofeng Zhao reported bugs and suggested fixes to them.
• Joshua Davies, Eli Bendersky, Milan Bella and Jens Seidel reported bugs on the documentation.
• Christoph von Nathusius, Stephen Ramsay and Johan Swanljung tested MDK on different platforms, and helped fixing the configuration process in them.
• Richard Stallman suggested various improvements to the documentation and has always kept an eye on each MDK release.
• MDK was inspired by Darius Bacon’s MIXAL program.