10 Jan
2024
10 Jan
'24
10:32 p.m.
On 2024-01-06 15:04, Rich Salz wrote:
Also https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/index.html
has some papers
with
Brian as co-author that talk about the history or the 202 and the
background work (troff->ditroff) involved.
I am sure these have been posted here before.
The <C>omputerphile Youtube channel did a video about 10 years ago about
"The Great 202 jailbreak:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w
A few years ago, a friend of mine gifted me a copy of the book they were
working on that lead to that hack, _The Sicilian Defence_, for which Ken
Thompson designed what is considered to be the first chess font. I'm
not
a big chess player, but it is still a neat piece of history.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX