[TUHS] Re: v6 Unix Documents

[Dan Plassche <boomer3200@gmail.com>]

Thanks Jonathan for the pointer.

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> PWB was an early external distribution with troff.
> 
> Documents for the PWB/UNIX Time-Sharing System
> https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:30007124
> https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/PWB_UNIX/
> 
> NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
> October 11, 1976
> datamuseum.dk, pp 325-357
> bitsavers, pp 217-249
> 
> Addendum to the NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
> May 1977
> datamuseum.dk, p 358
> bitsavers, p 250
> 
> fonts described in:
> Administrative Advice for PWB/UNIX
> 23. PHOTOTYPESETTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
> datamuseum.dk, p 647

I was not previously certain where the PWB release fit into the 
troff timeline.  

Based on comparison to the v6 manual last updated in September 
1974 and published in 1975, this manual revised in October 1976 
and published in 1977 now integrates troff-specific content like 
the special fonts you mentioned under new title of "NROFF/TROFF 
User's Manual."  The major change in the meantime was the rewrite 
of troff into C.[1]

1. Apparently from 1975-76 as noted in the 1992 revision of the 
manual and shown in the PWB 1.0 croff source code below:

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/spencer_pwb.tar.gz


Best,

Dan