From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 09:52:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzz_NJ=9C3dRuzMFXgE04s03R-XK34mAo4pFGkVSi-aTFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180512110127.0B81418C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On 12/05/2018, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> > From: Nemo
>
> > I have read that one of the first groups in AT&T to use early Unix was
> > the legal dep't, specifically to use *roff to write patent applications.
> > Can anyone elaborate on this or supply references?
>
> Are you familiar with the description in Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Evolution of
> the Unix Time-sharing System":
>
> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.htm
>
> (in the section "The first PDP-11 system")? Not a great deal of detail,
> but...
Yes -- that was (is) the source that I read. I was hoping for anecdotes
and the such from someone who was there.
> > It would also be interesting to learn how the writers were taught *roff,
> > what editors were used
>
> I'm pretty sure 'ed' was the only editor available at that point.
"Ed, man!" #6-)
N.
>
> Noel
>
>
>
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2018-05-12 11:01 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-12 11:38 ` Clem cole
2018-05-12 18:56 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-13 13:52 ` Nemo [this message]
2018-05-15 1:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 1:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-15 2:06 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-15 2:22 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-15 2:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-15 2:45 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-15 4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 10:28 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-05-16 0:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 20:49 ` Bakul Shah
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2018-05-15 23:05 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-15 23:12 ` Noel Hunt
2018-05-25 7:01 ` aksr
2018-05-25 7:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 12:52 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-15 13:40 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-15 14:23 ` arnold
2018-05-15 15:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-05-15 16:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-15 16:53 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-15 16:55 ` arnold
2018-05-15 23:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-16 11:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 14:18 ` arnold
2018-05-14 17:13 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-14 21:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-14 15:58 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-14 16:54 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-14 12:19 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-14 12:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-14 13:00 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-05-14 14:45 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 15:04 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 15:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:57 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 16:41 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-05-14 18:13 ` arnold
2018-05-14 18:18 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 18:25 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 18:33 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-14 15:04 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 15:33 ` arnold
2018-05-14 21:32 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-05-14 21:35 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-14 16:37 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-05-14 23:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-14 23:42 ` Ron Natalie
2018-05-14 14:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 14:46 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 14:07 ` Nemo
2018-05-15 14:37 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-15 14:55 ` Clem cole
2018-05-15 15:10 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-15 12:20 ` Doug McIlroy
2018-05-14 15:10 ` arnold
2018-05-13 5:55 Rudi Blom
2018-05-12 1:40 Nemo
2018-05-12 2:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-12 2:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 2:17 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-12 2:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 3:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 3:26 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-17 15:28 ` Blake McBride
2018-05-12 4:30 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-12 6:34 ` Dave Horsfall
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