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diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 3e9b53a..2b6f1dd 100644 (file)
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -3,12 +3,16 @@ Maintainers of GNU Software" (maintain.texi), the section called
 "Recording Changes".
 
 
+Aubrey Jaffer:
+is the author of SCM, the Scheme interpreter upon which Guile is
+based.  Guile started from SCM version 4e1 in November -94 and is
+still largely composed of the original SCM code.
+
 George Carrette:
 wrote files present in Siod version 2.3, released in December of 1989.
-
-Aubrey Jaffer:
-Changes to: eval.c, ioext.c, posix.c, gscm.c, scm.h, socket.c,
-gsubr.c, sys.c, test.scm, stime.c, and unif.c.
+Siod was the starting point for SCM.  The major innovations taken from
+Siod are the evaluator's use of the C-stack and being able to garbage
+collect off the C-stack
 
 Radey Shouman:
 In the subdirectory libguile, wrote:

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0ebf1f5..f5936bb 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ Tom Lord librarified SCM, yielding Guile.  He wrote Guile's operating
 system, Ice-9, and connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular
 expression matcher.
 
-Aubrey Jaffer seriously tuned performance and added features.  He
-designed many hairy but beautiful parts of the tag system and
-evaluator.
+Aubrey Jaffer is the author of SCM upon which Guile is based.  Guile
+started from SCM version 4e1 in November -94 and is still largely
+composed of the original SCM code.
 
 George Carrette wrote SIOD, a stand-alone scheme interpreter.
 Although most of this code as been rewritten or replaced over time,