>Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 10:05:24 -0400 >From: Doug McIlroy >To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org >Cc: lorinda.cherry at gmail.com >Subject: Re: [TUHS] PWB - what is the history? >Message-ID: <201805161405.w4GE5OeJ012025 at coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >They were in WWB (writers workbench) not PWB (programmers workbench). >WWB was a suite of Unix programs, organized by Nina MacDonald of USG. >It appeared in various Unix versions, including research v8-v10. > >Lorinda Cherry in research wrote most of the basic tools in WWB, ... I see Ms. Cherry also has a wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry which has "Cherry raced rally cars as a hobby". and the page contains a link to an interesting document which brings us back to the PWB "A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986 M. Douglas McIlroy" - uncle rubl