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+ %CopyrightBegin%
+ 
+ Copyright Ericsson AB 1999-2009. All Rights Reserved.
+ 
+ The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+ Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
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+ %CopyrightEnd%
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+
+The original JAM emulator was first implemented by Mike Williams (the
+instruction set was argued out with Joe Armstrong).
+
+The original BEAM emulator and loader were first implemented by Bogumil Hausman.
+They were completely rewritten by Bj�rn Gustavsson.
+
+Over the years the emulator has been basically completely rewritten by
+a large number of individuals. Most(?) notably Claes Wikstr�m, Tony
+Rogvall, Bj�rn Gustavsson, Patrik Nyblom, Rickard Green, Raimo Niskanen
+and Arndt Jonasson.
+
+Marcus Arendt did the original port for Windows NT. Most of this code
+was rewritten by Bj�rn Gustavsson, Patrik Nyblom, Kenneth Lundin,
+Fredrik Tillman and Mattias Nilsson.
+
+Per Hedeland did the original port for VxWorks. This port was
+improved by Peter H�gfeldt, Patrik Nyblom and Patrik Winroth.
+
+Mikael Pettersson, of the HiPE project, designed and implemented
+the new 2-bit tag scheme.
+
+The SMP support has mainly been designed and implemented by Rickard Green,
+Tony Rogvall (mostly ets), Mikael Pettersson (mostly optimized synchronization
+primitives, and timer thread), and Patrik Nyblom (mostly dynamic drivers, and
+Windows port). Also Bj�rn Gustavsson and Raimo Niskanen have contributed.
+
+There are also a lot of people who have contributed smaller (and
+bigger) things to the emulator and runtime system: Per Hedeland,
+Peter H�gfeldt, Kenneth Lundin, Fredrik Tillman, Mattias Nilsson,
+Kent Boortz, Markus Torpvret, Jan-Erik Dahlin, Sebastian Strollo
+and perhaps more...
+
+Bj�rn Gustavsson (mostly matching) and Arndt Jonasson (mostly construction)
+implemented the bit syntax instructions, borrowing some code from
+the original prototype implementation by Tony Rogvall and Claes Wikstr�m.
+
+The HiPE project (Kostis Sagonas, Mikael Petterson, Erik Johansson,
+Richard Carlsson, Ulf Magnusson, Jesper Wilhelmsson) added the
+hipe runtime to the Beam emulator. Bj�rn Gustavsson helped to
+integrate the hipe runtime.
+
+Rickard Green has designed and implemented the erts_alloc framework and
+memory allocators.
+
+Per Gustafsson (and perhaps others in the HiPE group) come up with
+idea for bit-level binaries and binary comprehensions. Per Gustafsson
+and Bj�rn Gustavsson implemented them in the BEAM compiler and run-time
+system. Bj�rn Gustavsson implemented the new optimizations for matching
+and appending of binaries in BEAM compiler and run-time system, while
+Per Gustafsson implemented the optimizations in the HiPE compiler and
+HiPE run-time system.
+
+The big heap-fragment-elimination project has been going on for many
+years and several releases, and was finally finished in R12B. Suggested
+by the HiPE group in order to support constant pools and possible
+future GC improvements, most of the work was carried out by
+Bj�rn Gustavsson, with help from Mikael Pettersson and the HiPE group.
+
+
+Original Authors and Contributors:
+
+Mike Williams
+Joe Armstrong
+Bogumil Hausman
+Bj�rn Gustavsson
+Claes Wikstr�m
+Tony Rogvall
+Patrik Nyblom
+Rickard Green
+Raimo Niskanen
+Arndt Jonasson
+Marcus Arendt
+Kenneth Lundin
+Fredrik Tillman
+Mattias Nilsson
+Per Hedeland
+Peter H�gfeldt
+Patrik Winroth
+Mikael Pettersson
+Kent Boortz
+Markus Torpvret
+Jan-Erik Dahlin
+Sebastian Strollo
+Kostis Sagonis
+Erik Johansson
+Richard Carlsson
+Ulf Magnusson
+Jesper Wilhelmsson
+Jakob Cederlund
+Magnus Fr�berg
+Per Gustafsson
+Bj�rn-Egil Dahlberg
+
+Open Source Contributors:
+
+Mick Dwyer
+Geoff Wong
+Maurice Castro
+Luke Gorrie 
+Shawn Pearce 
+Ruslan Shevchenko <[email protected]>
+Tony Rogvall (at Bluetail): New faster inet_drv (R7)
+			    HTTP packet mode (R8)
+Sebastian Strollo (at Bluetail): poll() as alternative to select()
+Mikael Pettersson (HiPE)
+
+Leonid Timochouk <l (dot) timochouk (at) gmail (dot) com> and
+Serge Aleynikov <saleyn (at) gmail (dot) com>
+	then (2006) at IDT Corp.
+	Wrote the original SCTP implementation, adapted by the OTP team;
+	in inet_drv.c in the emulator, as well as the parts in the
+	kernel application. They continue to provide patches.
+
+Mat Hostetter at Tilera Corporation:
+	Implemented ethr_atomic_cmpxchg() for all, at the time
+	of writing, supported platforms and improved the process lock
+	implementation by using ethr_atomic_cmpxchg() instead of
+	ethr_atomic_or_old() and ethr_atomic_and_old().