14 May
2018
14 May
'18
9:58 p.m.
From: Clem cole
Thinking about this typesetter C may have been later
with ditroff.
Not so sure about that; we had that C at MIT, but only regular troff (which
had been hacked to drive a Varian).
From: Arnold Skeeve
It seems to be shortly after the '78 release of
V7.
No, typesetter C definitely pre-dated V7. The 'PWB1' system at MIT had the new
C.
Looking at the documentation files for the extension (e.g. addition of
'long's), none of them have dates in them (alas), but my hard-copy printout of
one is dated "May 8 1978", and it was several years old at that point.
(Also, several sources give '79 for V7 - Salus says 'June 1979').
Noel
14 May
14 May
10:54 p.m.
New subject: Who used *ROFF?
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
The kernels in the release tapes from TUHS are dated June 8, 1979. They are
the latest dated files in the archives (apart maybe from a few directories).
Warner
From: Clem
cole
Thinking about this typesetter C may have been
later with ditroff.
Not so sure about that; we had that C at MIT, but only regular troff (which
had been hacked to drive a Varian).
From: Arnold Skeeve
It seems to be shortly after the '78 release
of V7.
No, typesetter C definitely pre-dated V7. The 'PWB1' system at MIT had the
new
C.
Looking at the documentation files for the extension (e.g. addition of
'long's), none of them have dates in them (alas), but my hard-copy
printout of
one is dated "May 8 1978", and it was several years old at that point.
(Also, several sources give '79 for V7 - Salus says 'June 1979').
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