[TUHS] README

[Marc Donner via TUHS]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README#History
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM Larry McVoy via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> I wasn't exposed to the Unix sources early but I did READMEs in stuff that
> I
> open sourced so someone must have showed me that.  Or it's just an obvious
> thing to do.  I did upper case README so it listed first in ls.
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 07:19:10PM -0500, Clem Cole via TUHS wrote:
> > I suspect it was a good idea that was independently created in multiple
> > places. I remember seeing them in PDP-6/10 arpanet would which I was
> > introduced before discovering Unix.
> >
> > Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 6:07???PM Douglas McIlroy via TUHS <
> tuhs at tuhs.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > READMEs are everywhere now, but I am not aware of any before Dennis
> > > began to put them in Unix source directories. Does anyone know whether
> > > he invented the idea or borrowed it?
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
>
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