From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: the Courier font family and nroff history
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:37:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiV+K9gM=i6OrmdNCwUsL2nDy_JGPLiEhx6Uyh35RcJurQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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> "BI" fonts can, it seems, largely be traced to the impact
> of PostScript
There was no room for BI on the C/A/T. It appeared in
troff upon the taming of the Linotron 202, just after v7
and five years before PostScript.
> Seventh Edition Unix shipped a tc(1) command to help
> you preview your troff output with that device before you
> spent precious departmental money sending it to the
> actual typesetter.
Slight exaggeration. It wasn't money, It was time and messing
with film cartridges, chemicals, and wet prints. You could buy a
lot of typesetter film and developer for the price of a 4014.
Doug
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-23 15:37 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2024-03-23 16:03 ` William Cheswick
2024-03-23 17:08 ` Norman Wilson
2024-03-23 20:56 ` Rob Pike
2024-03-23 22:53 ` Rich Salz
2024-03-25 19:15 ` Andrew Hume
2024-03-23 16:36 ` G. Branden Robinson
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2024-03-23 23:05 ` Paul McJones
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