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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MISSING_HEADERS,NULL_IN_BODY,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 3246 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2024 18:52:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 10 Jan 2024 18:52:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67AF143F21; Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:52:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from cuzuco.com (v.cuzuco.com [166.84.7.17]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD21C43F03 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:52:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuzuco.com (8.14.9/8.13.3) with SMTP id 40AIoixQ026700 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:50:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:50:44 -0500 (EST) From: tuhs@cuzuco.com Message-Id: <202401101850.40AIoixQ026700@cuzuco.com> Message-ID-Hash: XWZJ4UJI2AWYGHVYLFKI2ZQZPFPYICED X-Message-ID-Hash: XWZJ4UJI2AWYGHVYLFKI2ZQZPFPYICED X-MailFrom: tuhs@cuzuco.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: No idea what COFF is, but in the early 1980s, two non-troff options on the software side were - 1) TeX. From Donald Knuth, which means tau epsilon chi, pronounced tech not tex. The urban legend was upon seeing an inital copy of one of his books sometime in the 1970s, he yelled "blech!" and decided that if you wanted your documents to look right, you need to do be able to it yourself, and TeX rhymes with blech. 2) Scribe. From Brian Reid, of Carnegie-Mellon See http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/scribe.pdf -Brian Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com wrtoe: > Not really UNIX -- so I'm BCC TUHS and moving to COFF > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 12:19b