From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 12:42:52 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] [groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap into troff In-Reply-To: References: <201805060229.w462T9Ee018534@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: On 5/7/18, George Michaelson 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.