From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 384 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2020 18:13:44 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 30 Nov 2020 18:13:44 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 388FB9C24A; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 04:13:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B38B9C205; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 04:13:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 92D059C204; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 04:13:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E05629C203 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 04:13:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from callcc.thunk.org (pool-72-74-133-215.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [72.74.133.215]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id 0AUID6DA007617 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:13:07 -0500 Received: by callcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id 67366420136; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:13:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:13:06 -0500 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: Clem Cole Message-ID: <20201130181306.GG5364@mit.edu> References: <8b580c46-ecfb-9383-ed43-08108b3ee7bf@tllds.com> <20201130163753.GB18187@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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