12 May
2018
12 May
'18
5:01 p.m.
From: Nemo
I have read that one of the first groups in AT&T
to use early Unix was
the legal dep't, specifically to use *roff to write patent applications.
Can anyone elaborate on this or supply references?
Are you familiar with the description in Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Evolution of
the Unix Time-sharing System":
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.htm
(in the section "The first PDP-11 system")? Not a great deal of detail, but...
It would also be interesting to learn how the writers
were taught *roff,
what editors were used
I'm pretty sure 'ed' was the only editor available at that point.
Noel