# The Five Severians

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 May 1998*

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### m.driussi
*02 May 1998, 03:17*

Christopher,

FWIW I have hardcopy from July 1991 where I used the terms Sev1
and Sev2 (as well as Sev3, Sev4, and Sev5).  Apparently I didn't use
the term ProtoS until sometime later . . . September 1993, or so it
seems.

=mantis=

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