[TUHS] Re: roff at Princeton, Re: UNIX Roff Manual

It appears that Tom Lyon <pugs78(a)gmail.com> said: I used it when I was in high school. Princeton ran a bunch of free services on their 360/91. You could submit a deck with a control card saying which one you wanted, and it batched them up and ran them periodically. They offered WATFOR (probably WATFIV), SNOBOL4, AlgolW/PL360 and ROFF and WROFF. WROFF ran less often and it printed on white paper that burst to 8.5x11 rather than the usual green bar. They had 1403N1 printers with a nice looking upper/lower case type train, the same one used to print a lot of manuals and Gries' compiler book. It was the same idea as the roff's we're used adjusted for card input. The keypunches were upper case only so it automatically converted all the text to lower case except the first letter in a sentence, with some way to mark a letter or word to be left in upper case. In the manual the sample sentence was (not sure about the # escape): IT WAS A LOUSY DAY IN #PRINCETON. which turned into It was a lousy day in Princeton. It worked well, although for me it was more hassle than it was worth because it was a long walk from my house to the comp center or the enngineering building where there was an RJE 360/20. They also had a 360/67 running TSS, insofar as TSS worked which was badly. It had an editor TYPSET and formatter RUNOFF which I think were like the CTSS versions. The terminals were 2741s with upper/lower case typeballs. I never heard of anyone using any of those other than at Princeton.