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Subject: [TUHS] Re: The MGR window system and the Macintosh
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On 8/4/22 1:18 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 8/4/22 12:45 PM, John Floren wrote:
>> Today I came across an article about the MGR window system for Unix:
>> https://hack.org/mc/mgr/
>>
>> One thing that interested me was a note that some versions worked on the
>> Macintosh:
> 
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457846
> 
> gives the origins
> 
> I probably have the code in the backups of the archive that I used to maintain on the Apple VAX
> at that time.

you can find the original c.s.unix files here
http://sources.vsta.org/comp.sources.unix/volume17/mgr

i think I may need to push this to bitsavers. the c.s.unix archive was a little more difficult to find
than I thought.