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* Re: [TUHS] earliest Unix roff
@ 2019-09-15 22:07 Doug McIlroy
  2019-09-17  0:20 ` Steve Johnson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Doug McIlroy @ 2019-09-15 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

> Excellent - thanks for the pointer.   This shows nroff before troff.
>  FWIW: I guess I was miss informed, but I had been under the impression
> that was the other way around.  i.e. nroff was done to be compliant with
> the new troff, replacing roff, although the suggestion here is that he
> wrote it add macros to roff.  I'll note that either way, the dates are all
> possible of course because the U/L case ASR 37 was introduced 1968 so by
> the early 1970's they would have been around the labs.

nroff was in v2; troff appeared in v4, which incidentally was
typeset in troff.

Because of Joe Ossanna's role in designing the model 37, we
had 37's in the Labs and even in our homes right from the
start of production. But when they went obsolete, they were
a chore to get rid of. As Labs property, they had to be
returned; and picking them up was nobody's priority.
Andy Hall had one on his back porch for a year.

Doug

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2019-09-15 22:07 [TUHS] earliest Unix roff Doug McIlroy
2019-09-17  0:20 ` Steve Johnson
2019-09-17  1:11   ` Arthur Krewat
2019-09-17  1:17     ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-17  1:26       ` Clem cole
2019-09-17  1:33         ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-17 22:39           ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-17  1:36         ` Richard Salz
2019-09-17  1:36       ` [TUHS] wizards test [was roff] Clem cole
2019-09-17  1:38         ` Clem cole
2019-09-17  2:34         ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-17  1:57       ` [TUHS] earliest Unix roff Bakul Shah
2019-09-17  1:11   ` [TUHS] Model 37's Ronald Natalie
2019-09-17  1:19   ` [TUHS] earliest Unix roff Bakul Shah

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