From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Subject: [TUHS] [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap into troff
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 12:42:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VS3yFAWc4KCO+_6engO8NRhNqGSSk4uMG9Bk=DnOG3CbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On 5/7/18, George Michaelson <ggm at algebras.org> wrote:
>
> T/roff might have been disgusting, but so was RUNOFF which I was
> familiar with. So this is the classic "you can have it perfect, or
> have it next tuesday" moment, which I believe was J Pierpoint Morgan,
> who was in Zork, on the zorkmid, so I know it was a "thing".
The character in Zork was banker J. Pierpoint Flathead. The zorkmid
coins and bills bore the likenesses of various kings of the Flathead
dynasty, such as Belwit the Flat and Dimwit Flathead.
-Paul W.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-08 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-06 2:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-06 3:36 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 0:29 ` George Michaelson
2018-05-08 0:39 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-08 2:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-08 2:43 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-08 4:11 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 14:54 ` Nemo
2018-05-08 16:42 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
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