27 Aug
2020
27 Aug
'20
11:51 p.m.
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:25 PM Dan Cross
<crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, very Not Unix. As Dan wondered, the best list for this question is
internet-history, I think :-)
The Network Information Center was at SRI, and they used the ARC NLS: Doug
Englebart's Augmentation Research Center oN-Line System [1] but I get the
impression that by the 1990s nroff on Unix was the main tool for producing
RFCs.
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/finding-aids/1027…
Tony.
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Wight, Portland, Plymouth: West or southwest 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 at
first in Wight and Portland, veering northwest 4 to 6 later. Moderate or
rough. Thundery showers. Good, occasionally poor.
So I'm curious: what tools did people use to
produce those documents?
What was available at the time? Some of the first were done with a
typewriter ;-). That said, a lot of the early ones (1960-thru late 70s)
were done using one of the different flavors of the runoff schemes, with
the PDP-10 family being pretty popular since many of the Arpa supplied
systems were based on PDP6/10s.