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@@ -17,18 +17,16 @@ in source form, certainly so at the time.
 Gosling once told me that NeWS had too many components from too
 many other software vendors for them ever to open source it.
 
-Unfortunately, at the time I completed writing this book,
-Sun Microsystems pulled the plug on OPEN LOOK,
-caving to Motif and effectively ending the "Unix UI Wars"
-in return for getting a bunch of their stuff included into the
+Unfortunately, right about the time I completed writing this book, Sun
+Microsystems pulled the plug on OPEN LOOK, caving to using Motif as
+the Unix UI instead of Open Look, and effectively ending the "Unix UI
+Wars," in return for getting a bunch of their stuff included into the
 Common Desktop Environment (CDE).
 
 In the aftermath of O'Reilly's decision not to publish the book,
 I made it available on CD-ROM. 
-You can read the original README file from the CD-ROM in the file
-README-orig.txt in this directory.
 
-We mostly sold the CD-ROM through Amazon,
+We mostly sold the CD-ROM through a then-new company called Amazon,
 making me one of the few hundred earliest Amazon sellers 
 other than major publishers.
 In all we sold a few hundred copies over several years.
@@ -37,14 +35,13 @@ wish that OPEN LOOK "be towed out to sea and given a decent burial"
 had come true, and so I abandoned sales and put the CD-ROM up 
 for FTP download as an ISO image.
 
-After several changes of server and server software, this
-arrangement fell apart.
-So now I am putting what's left of it up on GitHub
-for anyone to pick over the remains. This was created by reading
-an early CVS archive I made at the time, merged with some additional
-files in a file I found on my hard drive called "olcd.tar" and
-a few from one of my last remaining copies of the CD.
-That's why some of the GIT log dates are from 2001 and some from 2016.
+After several changes of server and server software, this arrangement
+fell apart.  So now I am putting what's left of it up on GitHub for
+anyone to pick over the remains. This was created by reading an early
+CVS archive I made at the time, merged with some additional files in a
+file I found on my hard drive called "olcd.tar" and a few from one of
+my last remaining copies of the CD.  That's why some of the GIT log
+dates are from 2001 and some from 2016.
 
 == Caveat Lector: Some files are missing.
 
@@ -52,10 +49,11 @@ First, I've removed all binary programs and libs, since what worked on
 Linux or Solaris in the mid-1990's just isn't going to be useful today.
 Ditto for the search index, which had been built for a proprietary
 indexing program.
+
 Second, this repository is cobbled together from sources as
 described above, so there is no guarantee that it
 is exactly the same as what was on the CD.
-As well, there were a few minor revisions to the CD as we found
+As well, there were half a dozen minor revisions to the CD as we found
 minor glitches, so there isn't even a single set of "what was on the CD".
 
 In 2021 I added a few subdirectories from what appears to be a copy of