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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Documentation for Unix 4.0
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 01:21:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220606062138.i62tpj5pdxuxreen@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yp1bGskZXcR18mkW@minnie.tuhs.org>

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At 2022-06-06T11:40:42+1000, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote:
> Hi all, we have a new addition to the Unix Archive at:
> https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/Unix_4.0/
> 
> This is the documentation for Unix 4.0 which preceded System V. The
> documents were provided by Arnold Robbins and scanned in by Matt
> Gilmore.

Thank you all very much for this.  As an amateur *roff historian I think
among the other treasures here is a January 1981 addendum to Ossanna's
1976 Nroff/Troff User's Manual.  This would be _after_ Kernighan's
rewrite of the code to become device-independent troff.  Indeed, the
only troff (cf. nroff) device documented as supported is "Wang
Laboratories' C/A/T phototypesetter".  Not the Linotron, not the
Autologic, not the Imagen.

This is the earliest attestation of device-independent troff I'm aware
of, and moreover it's _documentary of the system_.  Great stuff!

(I've effused about this on the groff list already.)

Regards,
Branden

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-06  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-06  1:40 [TUHS] " Warren Toomey via TUHS
2022-06-06  2:15 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-06-06  9:19   ` arnold
2022-06-06  2:26 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-06  9:20   ` arnold
2022-06-07 16:57     ` John Cowan
2022-06-07 19:32       ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-06-09 22:19         ` Derek Fawcus
2022-06-06  6:21 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2022-06-06  9:26   ` arnold
2022-06-10  6:47 ` Ed Bradford
2022-06-10  7:31   ` [TUHS] Source code for SCCS (was Re: Re: Documentation for Unix 4.0) arnold
2022-06-10  8:38     ` [TUHS] " Matthias Bruestle
2022-06-10 10:03       ` arnold
2022-06-15  5:32         ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-06-10 14:22   ` [TUHS] Re: Documentation for Unix 4.0 Clem Cole
2022-06-10 19:24     ` John Cowan
2022-06-11  4:34     ` Ed Bradford
2022-06-11 14:43       ` Clem Cole
2022-06-12  5:45         ` Ed Bradford
2022-06-12  6:41           ` Warren Toomey via TUHS
2022-06-13 13:18             ` Jay Logue via TUHS
2022-06-13 15:49               ` Norman Wilson
2022-06-13 16:39                 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-06-15  1:53                   ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-06-15  5:57                     ` Michael Kjörling
2022-06-15 12:04                       ` Dan Cross
2022-06-16  7:45                         ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS

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