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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:12:33 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors
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Diomidis Spinellis scripsit:

> - Lorinda Cherry is credited with diction.  But diction.c first appears
> in 4BSD and 2.10BSD.  Did Lorinda Cherry implement it at Berkeley?

Diction and style were part of Writer's Workbench, a sort of analogue of
PWB for technical writers rather than GE programmers.  There were apparently
quite a few others as well.  There is now a commercial product called
WWB based on the old software, but running as plugins to MS Word.

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