From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:13:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201130181306.GG5364@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2Nxuff8eD1Q1UCK0TYCNH3w4fXiVSZYqfZzRr6vs269eA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 11:54:37AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
>
> I think the academics went LaTex and that had more to do with it. LaTex
> was closer to Scribe for the PDP-10s and Vaxen, which had a short head lead
> on all them until it went walled garden when CMU sold the rights (and even
> its author - Brian Ried) could not use it at a Stanford.
The other issue to consider is how easily could you typeset a
super-complex math expression (with integrals, sigmas, matricies,
etc., etc.) using eqn vs Scribe vs LaTeX.
For at least some of the stuff I needed to do when I was type-setting
problem set results (there was an informal competition between some of
the students regarding whose homework would get redistributed by the
TA's as the official problem set answer to the rest of the class), I
found LaTeX easier to use than Scribe, and I had access to all three
as an MIT undergraduate. Granted, that could have been a matter of
personal preference, and I never did try to use eqn for that purpose.
- Ted
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Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-30 3:10 Joachim via TUHS
2020-11-30 8:30 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-11-30 13:36 ` Brantley Coile
2020-11-30 15:12 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-11-30 15:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 16:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-11-30 16:41 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:37 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-30 16:54 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 18:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-11-30 18:25 ` John Cowan
2020-11-30 18:37 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 20:11 ` arnold
2020-11-30 21:49 ` Will Senn
2020-12-01 2:55 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-30 18:46 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-10 20:48 ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command Language (1976)) Greg A. Woods
2021-02-10 21:44 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 22:05 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11 21:58 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-12 5:22 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-12 22:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-12 22:18 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-10 22:36 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-10 23:05 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11 0:27 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11 1:53 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11 1:59 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11 2:04 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11 2:44 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11 3:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-11 4:07 ` Toby Thain
2021-02-11 16:55 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11 20:27 ` John Cowan
2021-02-11 2:30 ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-11 2:52 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11 6:42 ` Andrew Hume
2021-02-11 7:12 ` Rob Pike
2021-02-11 13:06 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-11 17:34 ` Jon Forrest
2021-02-11 18:09 ` John Cowan
2021-02-11 18:43 ` Rich Morin
2020-12-01 3:59 ` [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) jason-tuhs
2020-12-01 4:03 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-01 9:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-12-01 15:09 ` Jim Capp
2020-12-01 15:35 ` Toby Thain
2020-12-01 15:38 ` arnold
2020-12-01 16:24 ` Warner Losh
2020-12-01 16:39 ` arnold
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-02 7:08 ` arnold
2020-12-02 7:29 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-01 20:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-01 20:39 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-01 21:24 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-01 23:44 ` John Cowan
2020-12-12 19:50 ` scj
2020-12-01 16:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 20:49 ` John Cowan
2020-12-01 16:04 ` Tyler Adams
[not found] <CAMP=X_mO9oawUpHGOvgVtwVTgcmvdXAc5vrE_+s3d2NsH+1HgA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-12-01 0:00 ` Joachim via TUHS
2020-12-01 0:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 2:23 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01 3:13 Norman Wilson
2020-12-02 0:31 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-02 1:06 ` Adam Thornton
2020-12-02 17:02 ` John Cowan
[not found] <CAKH6PiWA2uN4m0AGp7VRJTQ6XXDLJQweHoHjx2wN=zQYs1onpA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-12-03 20:31 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-03 20:37 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-03 20:43 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-03 20:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-12-03 21:01 ` Ben Walton
2020-12-03 21:12 ` Clem Cole
2020-12-04 0:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-04 0:43 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-04 0:48 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-04 1:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-04 9:27 ` arnold
2020-12-04 11:33 ` Andy Kosela
2020-12-04 13:14 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-04 13:17 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-04 13:22 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-04 13:25 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-04 0:45 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-04 1:10 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-04 1:17 ` George Michaelson
2020-12-03 20:51 ` M Douglas McIlroy
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