19 Oct
2024
19 Oct
'24
9:36 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 08:58:06AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Noteworthy but frustrating here is that at this point, the forerunner of
CSTR #54 was still titled simply "NROFF Users' Manual" (PDF pp. 173ff.).
References to troff are present, but the typesetting program is not
fully documented. Frustrating!
PWB was an early external distribution with troff.
Documents for the PWB/UNIX Time-Sharing System
https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:30007124
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/PWB_UNIX/
NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
October 11, 1976
datamuseum.dk, pp 325-357
bitsavers, pp 217-249
Addendum to the NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
May 1977
datamuseum.dk, p 358
bitsavers, p 250
fonts described in:
Administrative Advice for PWB/UNIX
23. PHOTOTYPESETTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
datamuseum.dk, p 647