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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
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    > From: Richard Salz

    > A web search for "its mldev" finds several things (mostly by Lars
    > Brinkhoff it seems)

Yeah, other than the source:

  https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/sysen2/mldev.106

there's not a lot on it.


That's typical of a lot of the innovative work done at the AI Lab, LCS, etc;
they built some extraordinary tools, but to them they were just tools they
used to work on their research, their _real_ work. So why bother to write that
stuff up? So people who actually used them remember them, but other than
that...

Welcome to tomorrow, where everything gets re-invented, because everyone is too
busy to waste time learning about the past.

     Noel