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Less technical and detailed (but with some distinct stories and quotations):

https://ncwit.org/profile/lorinda-cherry/

Some other material:

+ An interview between Michael S. Mahoney and Lorinda Cherry: https://gist.github.com/telemachus/c01e3a213574a7bdcf79a4802...

+ Some mentions and quotes in this oral history of Unix: https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm

I’d be curious to see her appearance on the Today Show that McIlroy mentions. She and [Nina Macdonald](https://www.ninamacdonald.com/pub.htm) were on in May of 1981 to talk about Writer’s Workbench, but so far I can’t find any video.




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