* Re: [COFF] *roff history as told to GNU
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@ 2022-01-13 20:40 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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From: Lars Brinkhoff @ 2022-01-13 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Labovitz; +Cc: G. Branden Robinson, The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
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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