From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 09:52:49 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF? In-Reply-To: <20180512110127.0B81418C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20180512110127.0B81418C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On 12/05/2018, Noel Chiappa 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 > > >