history updated till 2004/12/07

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 \section{History}
 
 
 \section{History}
 

-CACAO started as a master thesis by Rainhard Grafl in the year 1996. It
-included a JIT compiler
+CACAO started as a master thesis by Rainhard Grafl in the year 1996 under
+my supervision. It included a JIT compiler

 for the Alpha archtecture. It used Sun's library 1.0
 and contained the native functions for {\tt lang}, {\tt io}, {\tt util} and
 {\tt math}. The first version was running in January 1997. This was the first
 for the Alpha archtecture. It used Sun's library 1.0
 and contained the native functions for {\tt lang}, {\tt io}, {\tt util} and
 {\tt math}. The first version was running in January 1997. This was the first


@@ -35,7 +35,12 @@ very little development on CACAO. Christopher Kr\"ugel added array bound check
 removal, Phil Tomsich wrote a new garbage collector and Roman Obermaisser
 made the change to the Java 1.2 library. In 2003 development became more
 intensive. Dieter Th\"urnbeck added inlining, Christian Thalinger did the
 removal, Phil Tomsich wrote a new garbage collector and Roman Obermaisser
 made the change to the Java 1.2 library. In 2003 development became more
 intensive. Dieter Th\"urnbeck added inlining, Christian Thalinger did the

-port to the x86 and AMD64 architecture, Stefan Ring did the port to the
-PowerPC architecture, Josef Wenninger replaced the SUN library by GNU
-classpath and Edwin Steiner added verification.
+port to the x86 and AMD64 architecture and rewrote the loader, Stefan Ring
+improved the MIPS port and did the port to the PowerPC architecture and
+implemented native threads with thin locks, Josef Wenninger replaced the
+SUN library by the GNU classpath, Edwin Steiner added verification,
+Carolyn Oates works class hierarchy analysis and inlining, Christian
+Ullrich implemented the linear scan register allocator and Martin Platter
+maintained the AWT library. On December 7th 2004 we released version 0.90
+the first time as source.