From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:42:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8412062A-2360-4464-B834-2567AEA69C0D@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210211025253.GX13701@mcvoy.com>
there was actually a weird fuss about the Merganthaler typesetter.
Ken figured out how the fonts were encoded and so we had the raw outline data for
all the fonts (they were gorgeous!). this enabled us to add in special characters like
the peter weinberger face.
ken wanted to do the right thing and tried to license the fonts from Merganthaler,
but we had endless discussions where Ken would say “we know how the fonts are encoded,
can we license them?” and the sales person would say “no you can’t; they’re secret”,
and so on. we’d even show them the peter face but to no avail. so we kinda flew
under the radar for that (but we tried!).
the typesetter itself was entertaining; if i recall correctly, the software ran on a 8in floppy
and Ken wrote a B compiler/run time system for the computer inside.
andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-11 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-30 3:10 [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) Joachim via TUHS
2020-11-30 8:30 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-11-30 13:36 ` Brantley Coile
2020-11-30 15:12 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-11-30 15:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 16:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-11-30 16:41 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:37 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-30 16:54 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 18:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-11-30 18:25 ` John Cowan
2020-11-30 18:37 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 20:11 ` arnold
2020-11-30 21:49 ` Will Senn
2020-12-01 2:55 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-30 18:46 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-10 20:48 ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command Language (1976)) Greg A. Woods
2021-02-10 21:44 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 22:05 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11 21:58 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-12 5:22 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-12 22:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-12 22:18 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-10 22:36 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-10 23:05 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11 0:27 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11 1:53 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11 1:59 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11 2:04 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11 2:44 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11 3:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-11 4:07 ` Toby Thain
2021-02-11 16:55 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11 20:27 ` John Cowan
2021-02-11 2:30 ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-11 2:52 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11 6:42 ` Andrew Hume [this message]
2021-02-11 7:12 ` Rob Pike
2021-02-11 13:06 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-11 17:34 ` Jon Forrest
2021-02-11 18:09 ` John Cowan
2021-02-11 18:43 ` Rich Morin
2020-12-01 3:59 ` [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) jason-tuhs
2020-12-01 4:03 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-01 9:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-12-01 15:09 ` Jim Capp
2020-12-01 15:35 ` Toby Thain
2020-12-01 15:38 ` arnold
2020-12-01 16:24 ` Warner Losh
2020-12-01 16:39 ` arnold
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-02 7:08 ` arnold
2020-12-02 7:29 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-01 20:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-01 20:39 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-01 21:24 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-01 23:44 ` John Cowan
2020-12-12 19:50 ` scj
2020-12-01 16:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 20:49 ` John Cowan
2020-12-01 16:04 ` Tyler Adams
2021-02-11 12:52 [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable Nelson H. F. Beebe
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