From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <012801c404fc$a1ba0910$8201a8c0@cc77109e> From: "Bruce Ellis" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <92c0a65f5d11f7e5fcf9b1bf72fa3d58@9srv.net>, <019501c402c6$123638a0$67844051@SOMA> <1dmdnfBNVc-F8NTdRVn-vA@comcast.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] fp stack overflow -- hypot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:59:50 +1100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2311cf30-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 you rather lost track of it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [9fans] fp stack overflow -- hypot > boyd, rounin wrote: > >>i'd rather see ape stick around. imperfect, sure, but certainly > >>still useful. there's a significant body of code that i either > >>run on plan 9 (ghostscript, troff) ... > > ken reversed engineered it for unix ?Ed, 'cos of the unfortunate death of > > ... > > If you mean troff, that was BWK and "..." was Osanna. > (Not Been Laudin'.) The original was in PDP-11 Unix > assembly language and made substantial use of tricks > such as packing two character codes into a word. > troff was rewritten again later (by BWK) to make a > "device independent" version. I think the Plan 9 > version represents one more overhaul to work better > with "runes"; I rather lost track of it after it > diverged from the DWB 2.0 version, which is the last > one my org. paid for the right to use.