26 Jun
2023
26 Jun
'23
12:46 p.m.
I have a bunch of the CSTRs that I downloaded back when they
were still there.
Warren -- do you want them for the archive?
Thanks,
Arnold
Noel Hunt <noel.hunt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I see, thanks for that information. I was aware of
that paper's
existence but I have never read it. I think it was on the old
Bell Labs website there was a collection of those CSTRs but
I can't seem to find them now.
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 at 22:49, Douglas McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> I used Ideal to make most of the figures in "Getting raster ellipses
> right", the first paper in CSTR #155. That paper grew out of a simple
> request from Rob Pike for an ellipse-drawing primitive for the Blit.
>
> Doug
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 10:34 PM Noel Hunt <noel.hunt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There is a little known suite of programs, written by Peter Weinberger,
> > found as 'btree', or 'cbt', in the archives for Eighth and
Tenth
> > Edition.
> >
> > The code in the Eighth Edition archive seems to be the earliest, and
> > has fewer utilities than available in the Tenth Edition code. A search
> > through files shows that it was used by 'road', 'weather'
and
> > 'apnews'.
> >
> > There is an ms file, 'memo', describing the programs, amongst the
code,
> > but an appendix seems to be missing. If anyone knows about this or
> > where it might be I'd like to get my hands on it.
> >
> > 'Memo' itself is interesting because it's the only troff
document I've
> > seen amongst the reseach papers (excluding Christopher Van Wyk's own
> > paper of course) that uses 'ideal', in this case, for drawing a
> > picture depicting B-tree structure.