12 May
2018
12 May
'18
1:38 p.m.
Right and it was ASR37 (paper) if I’m not mistaken. Which were upper and lower case. I
also believe that is why that’s the default terminal that original roff and nroff assumes
it has.
This is before glass tty’s where popular
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On May 12, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
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