Legend has it that Berkeley computer science students Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis were trying to get a class project, the world's first image browser written entirely in lisp, to run late one night. The program collapsed for the last time, they threw up their hands in disgust and decided to try something a little easier, an Adobe Photoshop clone written in C. Still in beta after about a year now, their program, the GNU Image Manipulation Program has been generating a great deal of interest in the Unix community. The GIMP is developed entirely on the Linux platform, and has been ported to FreeBSD-2.1 and 2.2; HP-UX; Solaris 2.4; SunOS 4.1.x and IRIX.