X-Nico

unusual facts about reference implementation



Apache Tomcat

Tomcat started off as a servlet reference implementation by James Duncan Davidson, a software architect at Sun Microsystems.

Xterm

After many years as part of the X reference implementation, around 1996 the main line of development then shifted to XFree86 (which itself forked from X11R6.3), and it is presently actively maintained by Thomas Dickey.


see also

Bzip2

In addition to Julian Seward's original reference implementation, the following programs support bzip2 format.

Pat Hanrahan

He was awarded in 2014, along with Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys, a Technical Achievement Oscar for their formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering, as shared in their book Physically Based Rendering.

PPML

PODi also provides a viewer which is widely accepted as the reference implementation for testing PPML output.

VTun

It exists as the reference implementation of the Tun/Tap user-space tunnel driver which was included in the Linux kernel as of version 2.4, also originally developed by Maxim Krasnyansky.

X.Org

The X.Org Server, the reference implementation of X developed by the Foundation.

X.Org Foundation

The modern X.Org Foundation came into being when the body that oversaw X standards and published the official reference implementation joined forces with former XFree86 developers.