From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem cole)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 07:38:47 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF?
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Right and it was ASR37 (paper) if I’m not mistaken.  Which were upper and lower case.   I also believe that is why that’s the default terminal that original roff and nroff assumes it has. 

This is before glass tty’s where popular 

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. 

On May 12, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

>> From: Nemo
> 
>> I have read that one of the first groups in AT&T to use early Unix was
>> the legal dep't, specifically to use *roff to write patent applications.
>> Can anyone elaborate on this or supply references?
> 
> Are you familiar with the description in Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Evolution of
> the Unix Time-sharing System":
> 
>  https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.htm
> 
> (in the section "The first PDP-11 system")? Not a great deal of detail, but...
> 
>> It would also be interesting to learn how the writers were taught *roff,
>> what editors were used
> 
> I'm pretty sure 'ed' was the only editor available at that point.
> 
>    Noel
> 
>