From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kwall@kurtwerks.com (Kurt Wall) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:51:15 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Booting v6 In-Reply-To: <200404141546.i3EFkse7006339@skeeve.com> References: <200404141546.i3EFkse7006339@skeeve.com> Message-ID: <20040414165115.GA18257@kurtwerks.com> In a 0.7K blaze of typing glory, Aharon Robbins wrote: > > To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org > > From: Mirian Crzig Lennox > > Subject: Re: [TUHS] Booting v6 > > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:04:48 -0400 > > > > I'm amused that someone would use LaTeX to reproduce a manuscript of > > dot-matrix source listings and roughly-typewritten commentary. > > I have no doubt that the commentary was produced with the V6 nroff. > It has the look of machine-formatted text about it, although it was > clearly printed on a constant-width line printer of the time. > > Now, were anyone so truly perverse, they might take the latex and > convert it into nroff/troff. :-) Thus returning to the original form in which it was prepared. There's an appealing circularity and feeling of having come full circle to that... Kurt -- "Whatever the missing mass of the universe is, I hope it's not cockroaches!" -- Mom