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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6794 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2022 10:26:19 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 14 Jan 2022 10:26:19 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9153B9D4E5; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:26:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E769D4B2; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:25:47 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; secure) header.d=xs4all.nl header.i=@xs4all.nl header.b="g5w1Uwnd"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 033CB9D4B2; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:25:45 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 672 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:25:39 AEST Received: from ewsoutbound.kpnmail.nl (ewsoutbound.kpnmail.nl [195.121.94.183]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 94DB79D06B for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:25:39 +1000 (AEST) X-KPN-MessageId: 072b0518-7522-11ec-a02e-005056992ed3 Received: from smtp.kpnmail.nl (unknown [10.31.155.7]) by ewsoutbound.so.kpn.org (Halon) with ESMTPS id 072b0518-7522-11ec-a02e-005056992ed3; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:09:15 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=xs4all.nl; s=xs4all01; h=to:message-id:date:from:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=Uo3zv8dWoDos/xwV1RQZP2Q2LKC8mAm/OGMsRswJM/k=; b=g5w1Uwnd15PLh4M5UhBYHmwlXczEjltxZz1YIyCN81Sp5IlAif7blc6WSIJUXYDcQ/3PFF0+OQiDg ySuh0UOZ6AIxdbLSsYcRRoyoe8LFpD/vrYxbP//hZ9n6HpN4adCfOBbVdtI7B6KG+feftLW/mwOgiY X3K5Qnkl2n9p5geIa9i3kj20GzM8gEuwaP+7KfEEQY19Rl0cy182ko+GtkHUmBWlEiNADlOkNojEVx 6y6bSF/h8LGbtxGfeItPqSj1yHv/U/r6NL/Oi2nsuIqbWEwKNqWlPxhN7TR2efs4aeBigniJpGEJvR JHPWKWEyJb5Tx8ldI4K8+x/YmDpnvcg== X-KPN-VerifiedSender: Yes X-CMASSUN: 33|N6eV/SPEw5jOe7HBv2sfR+mJWyavt5UY0aE7oM6cKdfyxzYQlmegtlrL1sM+mKB TaK/4mWu1UwGY28bqzipkiQ== X-Originating-IP: 213.127.121.50 Received: from smtpclient.apple (ip-213-127-121-50.ip.prioritytelecom.net [213.127.121.50]) by smtp.xs4all.nl (Halon) with ESMTPSA id bb09ea5c-7522-11ec-aee6-005056998788; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:14:17 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_4A945139-3BBE-4206-9BA5-49E226C7F3D8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 15.0 \(3693.40.0.1.81\)) From: Jaap Akkerhuis In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:13:35 +0100 Message-Id: <3BEC16DC-5F58-4D9E-8577-7578DE696F03@xs4all.nl> References: To: Rob Pike X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3693.40.0.1.81) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Brian Kernighan and very early *roff history X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --Apple-Mail=_4A945139-3BBE-4206-9BA5-49E226C7F3D8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > On Jan 14, 2022, at 1:10, Rob Pike wrote: >=20 > Dennis spent quite a bit of time cleaning up the troff code in the = late 1980s, if I remember right, moving it to modern C. He got annoyed = by it one day. If I remember correctly, it was actually Ken. He also turned it in a single binary. (Troff -N turned it into nroff). > It was the "ditroff" variant although honestly I don't remember us = ever calling it that. It was just the current version of troff. Not sure = where the name came from. Perhaps it was us but I think of it as a = foreign name. Originally Brian called it "Typesetter Independent Troff" in the article he wrote about it and for some reason people started to call it "Device Independent". jaap --Apple-Mail=_4A945139-3BBE-4206-9BA5-49E226C7F3D8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: no-use-standard-socket iF0EARECAB0WIQQrCaF5s4l4c+dDH/sjEcdY8Kh9hQUCYeFMzwAKCRAjEcdY8Kh9 hXpmAJsF15slHVbgCLSCumyueCueF0wFrgCfdU0pgloM28pK7ziFWohO89bxW/M= =6q3h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_4A945139-3BBE-4206-9BA5-49E226C7F3D8--