[TUHS] README

[Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS]

Douglas McIlroy via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> writes:
> 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?

The question has come up in some other places.  I offered some
information from ITS history where the file is usually called -READ-
-THIS-; however there's a SHRDLU; %READ ME which up in 1973.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/96966/origin-of-readme

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6059/when-did-readme-files-start-showing-up-in-software