13 Jan
2022
13 Jan
'22
8:40 p.m.
Moving to COFF.
John Labovitz wrote:
I’m sure I looked for TJ-1 when I did this research — an obvious
question, given the ‘2’ suffix — but didn’t find anything then. I’m
not familiar with JUSTIFY.
Note, later there was also a TJ6 for the PDP-6, written by Richard
Greenblatt.
The earliest known text-formatting software, TJ-2, was
created by
MIT-trained computer scientist Peter Samson in 1963.
I see claimed predecessors are JUSTIFY and TJ-1. How do you feel
about those? Do you have links/info for those?
This one mentions TJ-1 near the end:
https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/_media/pdf/DEC.pdp_1.1972.102650621.p…
The TJ-2 page on Wikipedia mentions JUSTIFY and links here:
http://www.ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/