This section answers questions about the people who've contributed to the Blackdown project.
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Randy Chapman <chapman@wilbursoft.com> did the original port of the Solaris JDK 1.0 to Linux on the i386.
Steve Byrne has done much of the work on the Intel port of 1.1.
Quoting Steve Byrne from http://www.place.org/~stevemw/java/FAQ/README.linux
Special thanks to Johan Vos (Sparc Linux port), Chris Seawood (GLIBC), Karl Asha (who gave us blackdown, thanks Karl!) Kevin Buettner, Scott Hutinger, Kevin Hendricks, Brian Keller, Philippe Laliberte and the rest of the PowerPC porting team -- these guys really fixed a *lot* of generic JDK bugs -- the 1.1.5 port is *much* better as a result of their hard work. Dan Powell and Rich Cannings have been very gracious to take over the administrative duties and to provide a site (and domain name) dedicated to java-linux -- thanks!And again:
Neal Sanche fixed the thread creep bug. Thanks, Neal!Please pass on historical information to the FAQ maintainer.
Steve has some auto-biographical information on his web page at http://java.sun.com/people/sbb/index.html.
Karl has this response:
Not too much to say...some time back in 1995 I wanted so much to have java on a linux box so I started harassing people I knew to work on it. I put together the web site, the mailing lists, etc, helped out a little here and there with the port, and things just bloomed :)