From: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] changes in C compilers
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:26:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1535660784.15121.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> (raw)
Clem Cole:
Clearly from the time, ditroff did not yet exist. The more I think about
it, Brian K actually might know some of the story.
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I'm quite sure Brian Kernighan knows the full story of the origins
of typesetter-independent troff (as it was originally called, in
CSTR 97, published in 1981; the binary was just /usr/bin/troff).
The reason I'm so sure of that is that it was Brian who rewrote
troff to bring it into the modern era and to make it supportable.
He's also the author of the CSTR.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
next reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-30 20:26 Norman Wilson [this message]
2018-08-30 20:48 ` Clem Cole
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2018-08-25 23:14 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-25 23:56 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-24 7:02 arnold
2018-08-24 12:00 ` Clem cole
2018-08-25 18:30 ` arnold
2018-08-25 19:58 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-25 22:19 ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-25 23:02 ` Clem Cole
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