From: Fabio Scotoni <fabio@esse.ch>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In Memoriam: J.F.Ossanna
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 06:22:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <987b698b-aeb8-5f85-a926-d142699237ea@esse.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181128025739.GA5701@mcvoy.com>
On 11/28/18 3:57 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> (*) I know that nroff was "new run off" and it came from somewhere,
> MIT? Some old system, but it wasn't invented in Unix. That said,
> I've never seen docs for the previous system and I kinda think Joe
> took it to the next level. If you haven't studied the docs and
> written macros, you should. It's a pretty neat system.
Kristaps Dzonsons actually went digging for that as part of his "History
of UNIX Manpages" essay[1]. The abridged version is that roff goes back
to a number of rewrites, the original being apparently RUNOFF on CTSS at
MIT. Source code for RUNOFF and documentation for various parts of
troff history have been preserved on that page. It looks
well-researched, though I have no knowledge first hand.
[1] https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-28 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-27 21:47 Dave Horsfall
2018-11-27 23:08 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2018-11-28 2:57 ` Larry McVoy
2018-11-28 4:48 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2018-11-28 14:44 ` Dan Cross
2018-11-28 17:08 ` Paul Winalski
2018-11-28 19:03 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-11-28 19:04 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-11-28 17:57 ` Earl Baugh
2018-11-28 18:23 ` ron minnich
2018-11-29 17:54 ` [TUHS] [OT] azel - was " Toby Thain
2018-11-29 17:57 ` Warner Losh
[not found] ` <CAG=a+rhvgikmvEPS_Z-umK2XPYfaxHmov_3QZuD0GcE97BN1qw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-29 20:11 ` Toby Thain
2018-11-28 5:22 ` Fabio Scotoni [this message]
2018-11-28 9:20 ` [TUHS] " Donald ODona
2018-11-29 3:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-28 13:09 Noel Chiappa
2019-11-27 20:53 Dave Horsfall
2019-11-28 0:06 ` Warner Losh
2019-11-28 0:43 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-11-28 17:16 ` ron
2019-11-28 17:18 ` ron
2019-11-28 0:46 ` David Arnold
2019-11-28 3:43 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-30 17:45 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-11-28 9:19 ` Thomas Paulsen
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