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From: mujica@ra.cs.ucla.edu (S. Mujica)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xwebster
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Date: 9 Sep 89 02:33:23 GMT
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on 8 Sep 89 14:32:03 GMT,
bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) said:
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> In-reply-to: steve@UMIACS.UMD.EDU's message of 7 Sep 89 13:25:45 GMT


> The story, which may be apocryphal, was that the way Webster's 7th got
> on-line was that a bunch of people (possibly at MIT) split up the
> pages and just began typing (the dictionary definitely began life on
> PDP-10's.)


The story that I have heard (which seems to be true...) is that the on
line webster is a copy of Webster's 7th Collegiate Dictionary
(Copyright (C) 1963 by Merriam-Webster, Inc.) that was created at
System Development Corporation under a government contract in the
early 70s.


Sergio Mujica		mujica@cs.ucla.edu
Computer Science Department, UCLA