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From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 09:58:25 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201106225825.GE99027@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2N0KbsZ4URqruuPnfvaOvnCTrxU9tr+PRqHk_keVSQxdQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday,  6 November 2020 at 10:53:59 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> However, the UNIX boxes we often bought 'daisy wheel' typewriters
> that had RS-232C interfaces.  Using nroff, I could then do my papers
> and run it off in the admin's desk at night.

My memory is hazy, but I thought that the daisy wheel printers I knew
(Qume Sprint\5) also had proportional spacing.  I ran into significant
problems with early MS-DOS based formatting software because it made
(frequently incorrect) assumptions about character widths.

Greg
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 22:58 UTC|newest]

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2020-11-06 17:56           ` clemc
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     [not found]         ` <202011061519.0A6FJOAx034308@elf.torek.net>
2020-11-06 23:08           ` grog
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2020-11-07  0:16             ` dave
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2020-11-06 15:53             ` clemc
2020-11-06 19:22               ` tytso
2020-11-06 19:24                 ` clemc
2020-11-06 22:58               ` grog [this message]
2020-11-07 21:04                 ` clemc
2020-11-07 23:05                   ` dave
2020-11-09  4:36                   ` [COFF] Daisy wheel printers (was: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature) grog
2020-11-09 14:26                     ` clemc
2020-11-10  0:10                       ` grog
2020-11-10 14:48                         ` clemc
2020-11-10 15:10                           ` stewart
2020-11-09 22:08                     ` dave
2020-11-10  0:48                       ` grog
     [not found]             ` <202011061546.0A6Fkv3D034443@elf.torek.net>
2020-11-06 16:22               ` [COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature clemc
2020-11-06 18:12                 ` torek
2020-11-07  2:52                 ` cym224
     [not found]               ` <20201106225422.GD99027@eureka.lemis.com>
     [not found]                 ` <20201106232901.AkY2I%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
2020-11-07  4:22                   ` grog
2020-11-07 20:31                     ` steffen
2020-11-11  8:31           ` [COFF] " peter
2020-11-11 12:21             ` tih
2020-11-11 21:09             ` dave

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