10 Jan
2024
10 Jan
'24
2:29 a.m.
On 1/9/24 9:18 AM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
On the subject of troff origins, in a world where
troff didn't exist, and one purchases a C/A/T, what was the general approach to
actually using the thing?
Short answer is you bought their proprietary typesetting
turnkey systems
They had to reverse-engineer the phototypesetter hardware to work with any homegrown
software to drive it.