From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 13:09:26 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:34 PM Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I always thought the Prof. Michael Harrison and his group in the
> CS Dept. at UC Berkeley were the first to do this. I found a reference
> to this in
>
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=IToEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT7&lpg=PT7&dq=michael++harrison+berkeley+postscript+fonts#v=onepage&q=michael%20%20harrison%20berkeley%20postscript%20fonts&f=false
"It steam-engines when it comes steam-engine time."
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
How they ever reached any conclusion at all is starkly unknowable
to the human mind. --"Backstage Lensman", Randall Garrett
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-30 3:10 [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) Joachim via TUHS
2020-11-30 8:30 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-11-30 13:36 ` Brantley Coile
2020-11-30 15:12 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-11-30 15:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 16:25 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-11-30 16:41 ` Dan Cross
2020-11-30 16:37 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-30 16:54 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 18:13 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-11-30 18:25 ` John Cowan
2020-11-30 18:37 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-30 20:11 ` arnold
2020-11-30 21:49 ` Will Senn
2020-12-01 2:55 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-30 18:46 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-10 20:48 ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command Language (1976)) Greg A. Woods
2021-02-10 21:44 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 22:05 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11 21:58 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-12 5:22 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-12 22:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-12 22:18 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-10 22:36 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-10 23:05 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11 0:27 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11 1:53 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-11 1:59 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11 2:04 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-11 2:44 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-11 3:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-11 4:07 ` Toby Thain
2021-02-11 16:55 ` Ron Natalie
2021-02-11 20:27 ` John Cowan
2021-02-11 2:30 ` [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-11 2:52 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-11 6:42 ` Andrew Hume
2021-02-11 7:12 ` Rob Pike
2021-02-11 13:06 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-11 17:34 ` Jon Forrest
2021-02-11 18:09 ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-02-11 18:43 ` Rich Morin
2020-12-01 3:59 ` [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976) jason-tuhs
2020-12-01 4:03 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-12-01 9:27 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-12-01 15:09 ` Jim Capp
2020-12-01 15:35 ` Toby Thain
2020-12-01 15:38 ` arnold
2020-12-01 16:24 ` Warner Losh
2020-12-01 16:39 ` arnold
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-02 7:08 ` arnold
2020-12-02 7:29 ` Rob Pike
2020-12-01 20:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-12-01 20:39 ` Bakul Shah
2020-12-01 21:24 ` Dan Cross
2020-12-01 23:44 ` John Cowan
2020-12-12 19:50 ` scj
2020-12-01 16:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-12-01 20:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-01 20:49 ` John Cowan
2020-12-01 16:04 ` Tyler Adams
2021-02-11 12:52 [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable Nelson H. F. Beebe
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