13 May
2018
13 May
'18
7:52 p.m.
On 12/05/2018, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
Yes -- that was (is) the source that I read. I was hoping for anecdotes
and the such from someone who was there.
"Ed, man!" #6-)
N.
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