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Warner Losh wrote:
> Rich Salz wrote:
>> I'd like to know what the first versions of X were written in
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> Without the earlier versions' source, it's hard to answer this question...

V source code exists, right?  It seems likely W would have been written
in the same language as W.  And that early X would also be the same.
Another source of information would be to ask Bob Scheifler and Jim
Gettys.