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fwiw1
- InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of for what it's worth.
FWIW2
- InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of for what it's worth.
Supposidly,^([sic]) SVR3 was developed on the 400 line, and ports to the 3B5/15 line are not due out until early next year. FWIW.
1986 August 27, Marc A. Ries, “Re: UNIX v.3 Query”, in net.unix (Usenet), retrieved 02 Jul 2016, message-ID <1267@trwrb.UUCP>2 more examples
Anyway, the PD libraries for "strings" and "ndir" were the saving grace, once "job control" was conditionally compiled out. FWIW.
1986 November 26, Marc A. Ries, “Re: Berkely Unix ported to NCR Tower32”, in comp.unix.wizards (Usenet), retrieved 21 Jul 2020, message-ID <1441@trwrb.UUCP>I spoke with a person that was a crew member of a P3-ORION out of Moffett. Although the Navy will not admit or deny the presence of nuclear depth-charges...he said that they routinely carry them during training...in case the training turns into the REAL thing while they are in the air. FWIW, --Bi// (For What It Is Worth)
1987 January 6, William Daul, “B-52's don't fly out of Moffett Naval Air Station”, in mod.politics.arms-d (Usenet), retrieved 02 Jul 2016, message-ID <8701070354.AA12777@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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fwiw. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fwiw
“fwiw.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fwiw. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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