From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, g.branden.robinson@gmail.com
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Documentation for Unix 4.0
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 03:26:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202206060926.2569QATp016937@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220606062138.i62tpj5pdxuxreen@illithid>
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
If you look at the second page of the table of contents doc, you'll
see that it was set on an Autologic APS-5, so you're right, this
is after BWK's work.
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-06 9:26 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
2022-06-06 9:26 ` arnold [this message]
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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