21 Oct
2024
21 Oct
'24
8:47 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 08:30:47PM -0400, Dan Plassche wrote:
On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, Jonathan Gray wrote:
same contents in
Distributions/UNSW/7/record0.tar.gz
source/formatters/
I've seen references to
"Documents for Use with the Phototypesetter (Version 7)"
which was likely distributed with the licensed phototypesetter tape in 1977.
What may have been the manual distributed with that tape is also close to v7.
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=Interdata732/usr/source/troff/doc
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Other/Interdata/
tuhs Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz
usr/source/formatters/troff/doc/
Looks we have the files from 1977!
There are 3 distributions on TUHS that have the same general name
and number of source files for the "typesetter c" compiler and
the "new" troff in C:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz
./usr/source/c_compiler
./usr/source/formatters/
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/spencer_pwb.tar.gz
./sys/c/c
./type/croff
./sys/source/s7/croff
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Other/Interdata/interdata_v6.tar…
./usr/source/c
./usr/source/troff
Applications/Usenix_77/ug091377.tar.gz
3/ken/nroff_manual/ 'NROFF/TROFF User's Manual'
same as interdata troff doc, without some files
The Spencer PWB tape appears to be 1.0. Dates on files from
sccsid comments on nroff/troff and throughout the system are from
early to mid-1977 making this the earliest set.[1] The files
under the ./type/croff directory and ./sys/source/s7/croff are
the same.
The UNSW AUSAM tape has the same files as PWB. An initial check
shows some feature flags and structs from PWB are missing for
[nt]roff here. However, there are extra notes on the c changes
and the October 1976 NROFF/TROFF manual source for content
published in the PWB documentation. The latest dates on other
files are from early to mid-1978.[2]
The Interdata files have lots of added comments and changes with
a late 1978 date listed in some files[3]. It does have extra
READ_ME files confirming that this was pre-release v7 c compiler
for v6, which helps validate the PWB and UNSW content.
I'll work from the PWB and UNSW files with the plan to send troff
details to the groff list and rebuild the compiler in the
process. Glad to confirm if the build succeeds and I find out
any further details about the compiler if relevant for TUHS.
I adapted Tim Newsham's v6 install scripts for PWB if you'd
like to run it on simh.
https://github.com/jonathangray/pwb/
Base system from the Bostic tapes, troff installed from
the Spencer tape.
1. Examples: ./usr/man/man0/introduction: May 1977 and
./usr/man/man0/documents: August 1977
2. As printed in the copy available at:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/PWB_UNIX/Documents_for_the_PWB_UNIX_T…
Updates like the January 1978 changes to the dz serial code
provided by Dennis at ./usr/sys/dmr/dz.c.
3. Such as ./usr/doc/cman/cman1: June 1978.
Best,
Dan