* Re: [COFF] *roff history as told to GNU [not found] ` <2DD03634-EEE7-4311-9CFB-1FCBBB3C927A@johnlabovitz.com> @ 2022-01-13 20:40 ` Lars Brinkhoff 0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread 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/ _______________________________________________ COFF mailing list COFF@minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] only message in thread
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