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. ᐧ On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 12:24 PM Clem Cole 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. > ᐧ > > On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 10:49 AM Ron Natalie 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" >> 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 >> > >> >