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The 'Word' equivalent was called Frank but AFAIK nobody has been able to reproduce what was demonstrated..

Quite painfully ironic for a software research project that they didn't use properly a VCS..

They did use VCS, actually, but a lot of them used SVN and each person in the STEPS project was hosting their own code. Most of those servers have gone dark now, though you can find random ports over to GitHub (rarely with the version history). As far as I can tell, Dan Amelang and Alex Warth were the only two who used git or moved their code over to git.

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