10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
3:04 a.m.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Rob Pike wrote:
I had an idea. I asked Tom Duff, Mike Tilson, Bill
Reeves to help me put
together tools and font digitizations to "print" nroff output to the
Versatec plotter one weekend in early 1978. [...]
We did something like that for our LV-11; I vaguely remember italics being
implemented by "sloping" the text, and bold by offsetting by a dot.
Mind you, that Versatec spent most of its time plotting biorhythm charts
for the operators and their GFs; well, this was the 70s, man...
-- Dave