From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:14:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201509250214.t8P2EvCu026479@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
I can assure you that Lorinda Cherry wrote most of the important
code in WWB, including style and diction. The idea for them
came from Bill Vesterman at Rutgers. Lorinda already had parts,
a real tour de force, which assigned parts of speech to words
in a text. Style was the killer app for parts and was running
within days of his approach to the labs wondering whether
such a thing could be built. Lorinda also wrote deroff, which
these tools of course needed. WWB per se was packaged by
USDL; I am sorry I can't remember the name of the guiding
spirit. So Lorinda's code detoured through there on its
way into research Unix.
Chris van Wyk was cvw. He was at Bell Labs, not BSD.
Chuck Haley is indeed Charles B. Haley.
Andy Koenig was ark.
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2015-09-25 2:14 Doug McIlroy [this message]
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2015-10-01 16:37 Norman Wilson
2015-10-01 18:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-29 8:07 Hellwig Geisse
2015-09-29 15:35 ` scj
2015-10-01 18:00 ` Aharon Robbins
2015-09-24 17:12 Norman Wilson
2015-09-24 20:07 ` scj
2015-09-24 14:08 Clem Cole
2015-09-24 15:20 ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-09-24 17:08 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2015-09-24 17:28 ` Clem Cole
2015-09-26 2:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-26 23:22 ` Clement T. Cole
2015-09-27 6:52 ` Armando Stettner
2015-09-27 17:31 ` Clem Cole
2015-09-28 14:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-28 16:55 ` scj
2015-09-28 23:23 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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2015-10-01 4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-29 6:57 ` arnold
2015-09-24 19:04 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2015-09-24 20:13 ` Clem Cole
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2015-09-25 8:04 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2015-09-25 12:04 ` Clem Cole
2015-09-24 13:56 Noel Chiappa
2015-09-24 14:38 ` Lawrence Stewart
2015-09-24 9:27 Diomidis Spinellis
2015-09-24 9:52 ` Warren Toomey
2015-09-24 12:59 ` Clem Cole
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