[TUHS] Re: Typesetter C Compiler and Troff (Re: Re: v6 Unix Documents)

[Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>]

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I should point out to add to the confusion, originally Mashey's team - the
PWB 1.0 folks are != USG (Summit folks)  although the later took over the
PWB work as I understand it.
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On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 12:24 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

> Exactly -- remember Dennis and Brian wrote K&R in 1978 on V6, not PWB and
> not V7 (or anything from Summit like TS).  When Brian's typesetter
> independent troff was released, that updated language was needed.   That
> was what we referred to as "typesetter C".  Brian and Dennis would have put
> together that kit.   My >>guess<< is that Mashey et al. and the Summit
> folks forked Dennis compiler somewhere before this time -- so what got
> packaged with the typesetter kit vs what got packed with Mashey and the
> team's kit are close but >>slightly<< different.
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> On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 10:49 AM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
>> Agreed, the typesetter C ran on a virgin V6 system.   That was the whole
>> point.   It came out before most of us got real V7s.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> From "Noel Chiappa" <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
>> To tuhs@tuhs.org
>> Cc jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
>> Date 11/30/2024 11:21:31 PM
>> Subject [TUHS] Re: Typesetter C Compiler and Troff (Re: Re: v6 Unix
>> Documents)
>>
>> >     > From:
>> >
>> >     > I was able to rebuild both the UNSW and the native PWB compiler
>> on PWB
>> >     > 1.0, but not to backport either to vanilla v6.
>> >
>> >Any idea what the problem was? I'm curious, because we ran a version of
>> the
>> >Typesetter compiler on the MIT systems, which ran an enhanced V6.
>> >
>> >          Noel
>> >
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