Re: [TUHS] PWB - what is the history? - TUHS

17 May 2018

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 Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 10:05:24 -0400
From: Doug McIlroy &lt;doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu&gt;
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: lorinda.cherry(a)gmail.com
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PWB - what is the history?
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 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