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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: John Labovitz <johnl@johnlabovitz.com>
Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] *roff history as told to GNU
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:40:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wv8yn8j3z.fsf_-_@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2DD03634-EEE7-4311-9CFB-1FCBBB3C927A@johnlabovitz.com> (John Labovitz's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:47:28 -0500")

Moving to COFF.

John Labovitz wrote:
>>> The earliest known text-formatting software, TJ-2, was created by
>>> MIT-trained computer scientist Peter Samson in 1963.
>> 
>> I see claimed predecessors are JUSTIFY and TJ-1.  How do you feel
>> about those?
>
> I’m sure I looked for TJ-1 when I did this research — an obvious
> question, given the ‘2’ suffix — but didn’t find anything then. I’m
> not familiar with JUSTIFY.

Note, later there was also a TJ6 for the PDP-6, written by Richard
Greenblatt.

> Do you have links/info for those?

This one mentions TJ-1 near the end:
https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/_media/pdf/DEC.pdp_1.1972.102650621.pdf

The TJ-2 page on Wikipedia mentions JUSTIFY and links here:
http://www.ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/
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