Vern had the following things to say:

Many thanks to the 2.5 beta-testers for finding bugs and helping test and

increase portability: Stan Adermann, Scott David Daniels, Charles Elliott,

Joe Gayda, Chris Meier, James Nordby, Terrence O'Kane, Karsten Pahnke,

Francois Pinard, Pat Rankin, Andreas Scherer, Marc Wiese, Nathan Zelle.

Thanks to the many flex beta-testers, feedbackers, and contributors,

especially Francois Pinard, Casey Leedom, Robert Abramovitz, Stan

Adermann, Terry Allen, David Barker-Plummer, John Basrai, Neal Becker,

Nelson H.F. Beebe, benson@odi.com, Karl Berry, Peter A. Bigot, Simon

Blanchard, Keith Bostic, Frederic Brehm, Ian Brockbank, Kin Cho, Nick

Christopher, Brian Clapper, J.T. Conklin, Jason Coughlin, Bill Cox,

Nick Cropper, Dave Curtis, Scott David Daniels, Chris G. Demetriou,

Theo Deraadt, Mike Donahue, Chuck Doucette, Tom Epperly, Leo Eskin,

Chris Faylor, Chris Flatters, Jon Forrest, Jeffrey Friedl, Joe Gayda,

Kaveh R. Ghazi, Wolfgang Glunz, Eric Goldman, Christopher M. Gould,

Ulrich Grepel, Peer Griebel, Jan Hajic, Charles Hemphill, NORO Hideo,

Jarkko Hietaniemi, Scott Hofmann, Jeff Honig, Dana Hudes, Eric Hughes,

John Interrante, Ceriel Jacobs, Michal Jaegermann, Sakari Jalovaara,

Jeffrey R. Jones, Henry Juengst, Klaus Kaempf, Jonathan I. Kamens,

Terrence O Kane, Amir Katz, ken@ken.hilco.com, Kevin B. Kenny, Steve

Kirsch, Winfried Koenig, Marq Kole, Ronald Lamprecht, Greg Lee, Rohan

Lenard, Craig Leres, John Levine, Steve Liddle, David Loffredo, Mike

Long, Mohamed el Lozy, Brian Madsen, Malte, Joe Marshall, Bengt

Martensson, Chris Metcalf, Luke Mewburn, Jim Meyering, R. Alexander

Milowski, Erik Naggum, G.T. Nicol, Landon Noll, James Nordby, Marc

Nozell, Richard Ohnemus, Karsten Pahnke, Sven Panne, Roland Pesch,

Walter Pelissero, Gaumond Pierre, Esmond Pitt, Jef Poskanzer, Joe

Rahmeh, Jarmo Raiha, Frederic Raimbault, Pat Rankin, Rick Richardson,

Kevin Rodgers, Kai Uwe Rommel, Jim Roskind, Alberto Santini, Andreas

Scherer, Darrell Schiebel, Raf Schietekat, Doug Schmidt, Philippe

Schnoebelen, Andreas Schwab, Larry Schwimmer, Alex Siegel, Eckehard

Stolz, Jan-Erik Strvmquist, Mike Stump, Paul Stuart, Dave Tallman, Ian

Lance Taylor, Chris Thewalt, Richard M. Timoney, Jodi Tsai, Paul

Tuinenga, Gary Weik, Frank Whaley, Gerhard Wilhelms, Kent Williams,

Ken Yap, Ron Zellar, Nathan Zelle, David Zuhn, and those whose names

have slipped my marginal mail-archiving skills but whose contributions

are appreciated all the same.

Thanks to Keith Bostic, Jon Forrest, Noah Friedman,

John Gilmore, Craig Leres, John Levine, Bob Mulcahy, G.T.

Nicol, Francois Pinard, Rich Salz, and Richard Stallman for help with various

distribution headaches.

Thanks to Esmond Pitt and Earle Horton for 8-bit character support; to

Benson Margulies and Fred Burke for C++ support; to Kent Williams and Tom

Epperly for C++ class support; to Ove Ewerlid for support of NUL's; and to

Eric Hughes for support of multiple buffers.

This work was primarily done when I was with the Real Time Systems Group

at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, CA.  Many thanks to all there

for the support I received.