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 	the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to date with recent
 	versions of that product.  XEmacs stems from a ")
 (about-xref "collaboration" 'history "An XEmacs History Lesson")
 (insert "\n\tof Lucid, Inc. with Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the University
 	of Illinois with additional support having been provided by
-	Amdahl Corporation and INS Engineering Corporation.\n\n\t")
+	Amdahl Corporation, INS Engineering Corporation, and a huge amount of
+	volunteer effort.\n\n\t")
-	(insert "In almost all circumstances, Emacs-Lisp code written for
+	(insert "In most circumstances, Emacs-Lisp code written for
 	GNU Emacs versions 18 and 19 will run under XEmacs without
 	requiring any modifications, or at most will require small
-	changes to accommodate an improved functional interface.\n\n\t")
+	changes to accommodate a different and usually improved
+	functional interface.\n\n\t")
 (insert "XEmacs provides a great number of ")
 (about-xref "new features" 'features "See a list of the new features.")
-(insert ".  More details
+(insert " not found in GNU Emacs.
-	on XEmacs's functionality, including bundled packages can be
+	More details on XEmacs's functionality, including bundled packages,
-	obtained through the ")
+	can be obtained through the ")
 (about-xref "`info`" 'info "Look at the info pages")
 (insert " on-line information system.
-	The WWW page for XEmacs can be browsed, using any WWW browser, at\n\t\t")
+	The Web page for XEmacs can be browsed, using any Web browser, at\n\t\t")
 (about-xref "http://www.xemacs.org/" 'w3-xemacs "Go to the XEmacs World Wide Web page")
 (insert "\n\n\tNote that w3 (XEmacs's own browser), might need customization
 	(due to firewalls) in order to work correctly.\n\n\t")
 (insert "XEmacs is the result of the time and effort of many people.
 	The developers responsible for the " emacs-short-version " release are:
 		 * ") (about-xref "Steve Baur" 'steve "Find out more about Steve Baur") (insert "  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>
-		 * ") (about-xref "Martin Buchholz" 'mrb "Find out more about Martin Buchholz") (insert "  <mrb@eng.sun.com>
+		 * ") (about-xref "Martin Buchholz" 'mrb "Find out more about Martin Buchholz") (insert "  <mrb@xemacs.org>
+		 * ") (about-xref "Hrvoje Niksic" 'hrvoje "Find out more about Hrvoje Niksic") (insert "  <hrvoje@srce.hr>
 		 * ") (about-xref "Chuck Thompson" 'cthomp "Find out more about Chuck Thompson") (insert "  <cthomp@xemacs.org>
 		 * ") (about-xref "Ben Wing" 'wing "Find out more about Ben Wing") (insert "  <wing@xemacs.org>
 		 * ") (about-xref "And many other contributors..." 'others "Read about the legion of XEmacs hackers") (insert "
-	Chuck Thompson was Mr. XEmacs from 19.11 through 19.14.  Ben Wing
+	Chuck Thompson and Ben Wing were co-maintainers of XEmacs from 19.11 through 19.14.
-	was crucial to each of those releases.
+	Chuck Thompson was responsible for putting out the releases,
+	rewriting the redisplay engine and acting as keeper of the source code base.
+	Ben Wing did most of the rest of the coding, including adding the Mule support
+	and rewriting much of the internal C code.
 	Jamie Zawinski was Mr. Lucid Emacs from 19.0 through 19.10,
-	the last release actually named Lucid Emacs.  Richard Mlynarik
+	the last release actually named Lucid Emacs.
-	was crucial to most of those releases.
+	19.8 contained a great number of significant changes.
+	These included a new lisp object system, rewritten minibuffer
+	and command loop code, and a great deal of code merging with the
+	newly released GNU Emacs 19 (all done by Richard Mlynarik);
+	and also the replacement of the previous redisplay mechanism with
+	the more powerful Epoch redisplay mechanism (done by Chuck Thompson).
+	19.9 contained two significant feature additions from Chuck Thompson:
+	scrollbars and configure support, and one from Ben Wing, the external widget support.
+	19.10 contained a number of contributions from Chuck Thompson and Ben Wing.
 		 * ") (about-xref "Jamie Zawinski" 'jwz "Find out more about Jamie Zawinski") (insert "  <jwz@netscape.com>
-		 * ")  (about-xref "Richard Mlynarik" 'mly "Find out more about Richard Mlynarik")  (insert "  <mly@adoc.xerox.com>")
+		 * ") (about-xref "Richard Mlynarik" 'mly "Find out more about Richard Mlynarik")  (insert "  <mly@adoc.xerox.com>")
 (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
 (about-xref "here" 'kill-buffer "Exit the About page")
 (insert " to remove (kill) this buffer.")
 (goto-char (point-min)))
 )
 	  ('bw "About Bob Weiner")
 	  ('piper "About Andy Piper")
 	  ('stig "About Jonathan Stigelman")
 	  ('steve "About Steve Baur")
 	  ('mrb "About Martin Buchholz")
+	  ('hrvoje "About Hrvoje Niksic")
 	  ('kyle "About Kyle Jones")
 	  ('larsi "About Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen")
 	  ('jens "About Jens Lautenbacher")
 	  ('jareth "About Jareth Hein")
 	  ('morioka "About MORIOKA Tomohiko")
 	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
 	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
 	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
 	  )
+	 ((eq xref 'hrvoje)
+	  (about-face "Hrvoje Niksic" 'bold)
+	  (insert " <hniksic@srce.hr>
+	Hrvoje is currently a student at the Faculty of Electrical
+	Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia.  He works part-
+	time at SRCE, where he helps run the network machines.
+	In his free time he is helping develop free software (especially
+	XEmacs, as well as GNU software) and is writing his own -- he has
+	written a small network mirroring utility Wget, see
+	\"ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/\".")
+	  (insert "\n\n\tClick ")
+	  (about-xref "here" prev-page "Return to previous page")
+	  (insert " to go back to the previous page.\n")
+	  )
 	 ((eq xref 'cthomp)
 	  (about-face "Chuck Thompson" 'bold)
 	  (insert " <cthomp@xemacs.org>
 	Chuck, through being in the wrong place at the right time, has
 	the initial implementation of `duplicable' properties.
 	Hans Muller <hmuller@eng.sun.com>
 	Author of the code used to connect XEmacs with ToolTalk, and
 	of an early client of the external Emacs widget.
-	Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
-	Hrvoje is currently a student at the Faculty of Electrical
-	Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia.  He works part-
-	time at SRCE, where he helps run the network machines.
-	In his free time he is helping develop free software (especially
-	XEmacs, as well as GNU software) and is writing his own -- he has
-	written a small network mirroring utility Wget, see
-	\"ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/\".
 	In addition to those just mentioned, the following people have
 	spent a great deal of effort providing feedback, testing beta
 	versions of XEmacs, providing patches to the source code, or
 	doing all of the above.  We couldn't have done it without them.

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