Availability, Acknowledgments, Author Info
Availability
PIKT's homepage is: http://pikt.uchicago.edu/pikt, where you will find not
only the distribution package but also complete on-line documentation, sample
configuration files, a comprehensive test suite (with over 600 validation
tests), and other useful items. PIKT is also available for download at a
number of ftp sites. pikt-users and pikt-workers mailing lists have been
formed. Operating systems now supported include GNU/Linux, Solaris, SunOS,
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, HP-UX, and IRIX.
Acknowledgments
I need to thank the following persons for their helpful criticisms,
suggestions, bug reports, and in some cases code: Bardur Arantsson, Michel
Blanc, Jim Botts, Leon Breedt, Chris Halverson, Magdalena Hewryk, Rich Hoffer,
Kelsang Wangden, James Low, David Masterson, Miguel Armas del Rio, Roland
Roberts, Raul Alexis Betancort Santana, Mike Scheidler, Joe Siegrist, and
especially Harlan Stenn, who implemented the PIKT autoconf/automake and who
has helped out in other innumerable ways. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to
the authors and maintainers of gcc, gdb, and make, as well as GNU flex (lex)
and bison (yacc), upon which PIKT relies quite heavily. I am also very
grateful to Will Partain and Kelsang Wangden for providing thoughtful and
incisive suggestions for improving this paper.
Author Information
In a former life, Robert Osterlund earned a couple of economics degrees from
the University of Chicago and worked as an economist and college teacher while
serving as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. After making a
mid-life career switch to computing, he took computing courses for a while at
the University of Illinois at Chicago, then returned to the Philippines to
organize and head the computer department at a small college there. He was
employed for five years as Senior Programmer Analyst at the University of
Chicago's Social Sciences and Public Policy Computing Center, and has worked
as Unix Systems Manager at the University's Graduate School of Business
since 1995. You can mail him at: Robert Osterlund, Graduate School of
Business, University of Chicago, 1101 E. 58th Street, Walker 309, Chicago,
Illinois 60637, USA. Or send e-mail to: [email protected]
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