From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: FD 2
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:58:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230123085833.lvxjr44d4ty2ag62@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO2qRdOvgNny3L50icK8xmwswu3M429-KqzhVoe09bRMXJBVVg@mail.gmail.com>
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At 2023-01-23T00:32:53-0800, James Johnston wrote:
> At one point it was like $22/page.
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 11:30 PM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
> > Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >
> > > And I believe that the impetus for the V7 changes was
> > > phototypesetting 'file not found' too often... But that last bit
> > > is mostly because I want to believe.
> >
> > Doug McIlroy has told that story here, search the archives.
> > It was indeed becase of the phototypesetter.
Steve Johnson's email[0] (which I cited in my earlier reply to this
thread) said it took only "a couple of days" after acquistion of the
phototypesetter for this to happen. But the C/A/T was acquired by
1973[1], and the Hunt Brothers' cornering of the silver market occurred
in March 1980[2], over a year _after_ the release of V7[3].
It seems both of these can't be true. I wondered if maybe only a later
typesetter used a silver-based photochemical development process, but
that doesn't work with troff history either, as device-independent troff
wasn't ready to go until about January 1981, targetting the C/A/T and
the Autologic APS-5[4], the latter with support so fresh that it wasn't
in the manual yet[5].
Can someone reconcile these points?
Regards,
Branden
[0] https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2013-December/006113.html
[1] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V4/man/man1/troff.1
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
[3] https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7
[4] https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/Unix_4.0/Volume_1/00_Annotated_Table_of_Contents.pdf
(p. 2)
[5] https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/Unix_4.0/Volume_1/C.1.2_NROFF_TROFF_Users_Manual.pdf
(p. 34)
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-20 22:44 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2023-01-20 22:54 ` [TUHS] " G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-20 22:56 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-20 23:11 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-20 23:14 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-20 23:22 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-20 23:13 ` Douglas McIlroy
2023-01-21 3:37 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-21 15:42 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-21 17:34 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-21 17:50 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-21 18:26 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-21 18:37 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-22 11:05 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-22 21:23 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-22 22:10 ` ron minnich
2023-01-23 7:30 ` arnold
2023-01-23 8:32 ` James Johnston
2023-01-23 8:58 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2023-01-23 11:49 ` Brantley Coile
2023-01-23 14:25 ` Ronald Natalie
2023-01-23 17:43 ` Brantley Coile
2023-01-23 16:59 ` Douglas McIlroy
2023-01-24 7:21 ` arnold
2023-01-29 18:51 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-29 19:20 ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-29 20:25 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-30 7:50 ` arnold
2023-01-30 8:09 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-30 15:02 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-30 15:16 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-30 15:27 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-30 15:35 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-30 15:45 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-30 16:09 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-30 16:18 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-30 19:03 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-30 19:12 ` Brantley Coile
2023-01-30 21:24 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-30 22:15 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-30 22:50 ` ron minnich
2023-01-30 23:05 ` [TUHS] Child of plan9? (Re: " Bakul Shah
2023-01-31 3:19 ` [TUHS] " Andrew Warkentin
2023-01-30 16:21 ` [TUHS] " Steve Nickolas
2023-01-30 16:27 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-30 16:32 ` ron minnich
2023-01-30 16:40 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-30 19:55 ` Lawrence Stewart
2023-01-31 21:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-01-30 16:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-30 16:57 ` Andy Kosela
2023-01-30 17:04 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-30 20:38 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-30 21:01 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-30 21:10 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-30 16:03 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-30 16:07 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-30 16:13 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-30 16:22 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-30 16:17 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-30 16:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-30 16:41 ` [TUHS] job control (Re: " Bakul Shah
2023-01-30 19:07 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-01-30 13:26 ` John Cowan
2023-01-30 14:30 ` arnold
2023-01-30 0:25 ` Phil Budne
2023-01-30 2:08 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-21 18:27 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-22 10:56 ` Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS
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