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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 32421 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2022 21:15:58 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 12 Jan 2022 21:15:58 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 27C9B9D02F; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:15:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A47F9CF7E; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:15:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id CFB739CF7E; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:15:19 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 1592 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:15:18 AEST Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A51B79C78F for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:15:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id C365618C08A; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:48:45 -0500 (EST) To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-Id: <20220112204845.C365618C08A@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:48:45 -0500 (EST) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Subject: Re: [TUHS] *roff history as told to GNU 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: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > From: Dan Cross > a port of the _CTSS_ BCPL ROFF sources purportedly written by Doug. I > wonder if that was actually a thing, or an error? > ... > Fortunately, the source [of the original CTSS runoff] is online: > ... > Indeed; one finds the following in at least one of the Multics RUNOFF > source files: It sounds like all the steps in the chain have pretty definitive evidence - _except_ whether there was ever a CTSS RUNOFF in BCPL, from Doug. Happily, we have someone here who should be able to answer that! :-) Noel