From: Phil Budne <phil@ultimate.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual?
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2024 21:54:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202401070254.4072swca006665@ultimate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240107021710.F0B92374013D@freecalypso.org>
Mychaela Falconia wrote:
> My hypothesis still stands: until someone convinces me otherwise, I
> shall continue to believe that *every* paper that made its way into V7
> Volume 2 (including BWK's trofftut) was typeset on the original CAT-driving
> troff
FWIW (likely little), CAT-driving troff *was* used to drive other
printers, and least for the unwashed. At Boston University in the mid
80's we had a Talaris 1200 (the same Xerox print engine (2700?) as the
DEC LN01). The name QMS (and QUIC) were mixed in there was well. We
had a "qtroff" command that ran the standard 4BSD troff against custom
kerning files (in a.out format!) and interpreted the C/A/T output for
the printer. Then we got the transcript package from Adobe which had
a "ptroff" command that similarly converted C/A/T output to PostScript(*).
I'm not saying interpreting C/A/T output was done at the mother ship,
but it's not impossible either. The big wins with [td]itroff were
more than four fonts, and graphics.
(*) Transcript also came with a "psroff" script that would use
ditroff, if you had it, and the original "enscript" command was in the
transcript package.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-07 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-05 22:17 [TUHS] " Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-05 23:19 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-06 0:12 ` Will Senn
2024-01-06 1:26 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 5:08 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-06 6:12 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 15:06 ` Will Senn
2024-01-06 1:06 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-06 1:45 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-06 14:42 ` amp1ron
2024-01-06 3:02 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 3:22 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-06 4:06 ` Jonathan Gray
2024-01-06 4:06 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 18:33 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-06 21:04 ` Rich Salz
2024-01-06 21:38 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-10 16:32 ` Michael Parson
2024-02-10 19:43 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-07 2:17 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-07 2:25 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-07 2:54 ` Phil Budne [this message]
2024-01-07 3:21 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-07 3:55 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-10 16:53 ` Michael Parson
2024-01-10 17:45 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-07 10:54 ` Brian Walden
2024-01-07 12:12 ` arnold
2024-01-08 0:20 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-07 21:59 ` [TUHS] My own version of troff Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-08 3:24 ` [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual? / " G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-08 5:10 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-08 7:11 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-09 9:38 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-09 16:27 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-09 17:18 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-09 18:05 ` Phil Budne
2024-01-09 18:30 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2024-01-09 20:29 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-09 20:31 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-09 22:07 ` Clem Cole
[not found] ` <CAGcdajdc5GfTOeP_Vw_AC0E6BdnrBLape1+GEd2JGDCg4n31eQ@mail.gmail.com>
2024-01-17 14:08 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-17 15:32 ` Brad Spencer
2024-01-17 15:48 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-17 16:25 ` Rich Salz
2024-01-18 7:00 ` Mychaela Falconia
[not found] ` <CAGcdaje=RHbLNZv2Cy=xtuEMaYU7RXMtnom7gYuAMMju2xrHgw@mail.gmail.com>
2024-01-18 8:22 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-18 13:27 ` G. Branden Robinson
[not found] ` <ZalHs6DAuvRwXTuS@fluorine>
2024-01-19 16:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-06 14:52 ` [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual? Will Senn
2024-01-06 16:52 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-06 16:54 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-06 18:28 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-07 13:42 Douglas McIlroy
2024-01-09 6:32 Brian Walden
2024-01-09 8:24 Brian Walden
2024-01-09 9:05 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-10 18:25 Douglas McIlroy
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