22 Mar
2017
22 Mar
'17
7:31 a.m.
On 2017-03-21 6:55 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 06:29:50AM +1000, Warren
Toomey wrote:
As a troff fan, I'd *love* to see the original sources. I bet anything
they roff just fine today.
As somebody who's brushed against software and markups and
reproducibility of its combinations, that's a bet I'd very happily be on
the other side of.
--T
However,
I'm wondering whether we should/could do something to also archive
the actual pages of all the Bell Labs Computer Science Technical Reports. I
think some are the only authoritative primary source for many Unix-related
gems and a lack of an electronic archive means they will slowly fade into
non-existence. I remember we had many of those at the library of Imperial
College London. Any suggestions on what we can do to archive this material?
I've got the Unix-related BSTJ articles at
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Papers/BSTJ/