On 2004-Apr-14 12:51:15 -0400, Kurt Wall <kwall(a)kurtwerks.com> wrote: Actually, I'm surprised that someone (presumably John Lions) re-wrote the nroff into LaTeX - it would seem easier to have just used troff for the book. In order to get that 'original' feel, you'll need to find an appropriate DECwriter (LA120?). Remember to hand-write the page numbers and draw in the lines (and maybe boxes) in chapter 23 by hand. Whilst you could re-create the appropriate 7x9 (I think) font for a modern printer - though that will be missing the feel of impact dot-matrix output: random variations in density and missing dots. Personally, I think that is over-doing it. Text is _far_ easier to read when it's properly typeset using a good looking font (that includes descenders) at high resolution (>600dpi). I believe the visual appearance of the original notes was limited by the technology available to John Lions in 1977, rather than a deliberate decision to produce low quality output. Peter

On Apr 14, 2004, at 4:52 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote: I'm betting it would be like my V6 kernel listing... printed on an LA36 DECwriterII. -- Milo Velimirović University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA -- There's a reason Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson have been awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology (1998) and are fellows of the Computer History Museum Online. Dave Cutler hasn't and isn't. "You are not expected to understand this."