Foonlies

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Thu Feb 1 11:00:17 CST 2018



On 1/31/18 6:25 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> 
> The fourth guy was Dick Helliwell, who was hired by DEC when they licensed SUDS
> from SAIL.  I met Dick when we both worked at XKL; he was the major part of the
> effort to make SUDS run on the X Window System, on the KL-10 and later on the
> Toad-1.  I'm going to disagree with the history Al posted, because Dick himself
> told me the story.
> 

It would be good to get the actual history from the source.
I was just parroting a summary, with SUDS as a tiny part.

The observative will find Dick's name on some of the DEC SUDS-generated drawings, "S. Foonly" on others.



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