I authored those files so I could render the Seventh Edition manuals
as PDF in 1998 (long after I had departed the Labs). As pic did not
exist yet (Kernighan had not written it) there were never any
original pic files for these documents. I do not know what 1127 was
doing to publish diagrams at the time.
The Bell logo I did directly in postscript so \(bs would render. The logo
was originally it's own custom "character" just like an A, B or C, on the
phototypesetter's optical font wheel.
You can see what they look liked from the v7 PDF manuals --
In Volume 2A (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/v7vol2a.pdf)
bs.ps is on variety of pages such as 129, 130, 216
ms.pic is on page 127
make.ps is on page 282
In Volume 2B (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/v7vol2b.pdf)
implfig1.pic is on page 162
implfig2.pic is on page 168
these are the PDF page numbers (where the title is page 1)
> From: Mark Longridge <cubexyz(a)gmail.com>
>
> I came across some Unix files in v7add such as bs.ps for the Bell logo
> and ms.pic (described as Figure 1 for msmacros).
>
> http://www.maxhost.org/other/ms.pic
>
> I was wondering if there was some viewer or conversion program so we
> could look at pic files from this era?
>
> Mark
>
>
I came across some Unix files in v7add such as bs.ps for the Bell logo
and ms.pic (described as Figure 1 for msmacros).
http://www.maxhost.org/other/ms.pic
I was wondering if there was some viewer or conversion program so we
could look at pic files from this era?
Mark
Peter Salus noted there was workshop in Newport, RI, in 1984 concerning
"Distributed UNIX." The report on “Distributed UNIX” by Veigh S. Meer [a
transparent pseudonym] appeared in /;login:/ 9.5 (November 1984), pp.
5-9. So who was "Veigh S. Meer"? The affiliation says "Bellcore," but
who was there in 1984? Peter's first thought was Peter Langston.
Any ideas?
Debbie
Dave Horsfall:
Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke? If it's American
humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...
There is no such thing as American humour, because Yanks don't know
how to spell.
They can't get the wood either.
Norman Wilson
(reformed Yank)
Toronto ON
When I get back to a keyboard I thought maybe it would be nice to share
some Greg stories, I have enough of them. So I'll try and do that.
If anyone wants to do that in person, USENIX ATC is next
week and would be an appropriate venue. Perhaps a Greg
Chesson Memorial BOF?
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
Much to my surprise I see there isn't a WIKI page on Greg Chesson yet?
Maybe some of his friends get get together on submit one ?
Cheers,
rudi
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> Haven't found any more info...
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> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:50:42 -0400
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> Dave, fyi.
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> Greg had been sick for a while. Sad loss.
> Clem
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> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
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>> Haven't found any more info...
>>
>> --
>> Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
>> suffer"
>> http://www.horsfall.org/ It's just a silly little web site, that's
>> all...
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:50:42 -0400
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>> Dave, fyi.
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Replacing Chad, was: Black tape
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Jones, Douglas W wrote:
> The flaws in the Votomatic were a bit subtle, but in retrospect, if you
> read the patents for the IBM Portapunch (the direct predecessor of the
> Votomatic) and for the Votomatic, you find that the flaw that was its
> eventual downfall -- at least in the public's mind -- is fully
> documented in the patents. Of course IBM's (and later CESI's, after IBM
> walked away from the Votomatic in the late 1960s) salesmen never
> mentioned those flaws.
Portapunch? Arrgghh!
We had to put up with that Satan-spawn in our University days... Only 40
columns wide, it had specific encodings for FORTRAN words, and it was just
as well that FORTRAN ignored white space (I know this for a fact, when I
fed a deck into a "real" card reader one time).
Being but mere impecunious Uni students and having to actually buy the
things, we resorted to fixing mis-punches by literally sticky-taping the
chads back.
For some reason, the computer operators (IBM 360/50) hated us...
I really do hope that the inventor of Portapunch is still having holes
punched through him with a paper-clip.
Anyone got Plan 9 4th edition manuals or Inferno Manuals? I will be
interested to buy them. Vitanuova used to sell them, but their payment
system is down for years now and has been brought up to Charles many
times, but it seem to be still down, so there is no way to buy it from
them.
--
Ramakrishnan
Hi All.
As mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a full set of the O'Reilly X11 books
from the early 90s.
I'm willing to send them on to a better home for the cost of mailing
from Israel.
One person said they were interested but didn't follow up with me, so
I'm again offering to the list. First one to get back to me wins. :-)
Thanks,
Arnold
