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Subject: Re: [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?
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On 1/24/21 3:33 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> As near as I could tell, he didn't look at
> anything anyone else had done (with the exception of the W code from
> Stanford)

And today it's impossible to find the original W code. At least I've not
been able to find it in decades of looking.

I don't beleive at the time SUN at Stanford was about Unix at all. It
was very much Cheriton and the V Kernel.

In that timeframe, wasn't CMU still into Spice and PERQs ?