From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:25:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiXerMS+_o45s6eUjLa=0OzUVqc4qn-x6hH6r-3PrM98oQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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> The <C>omputerphile Youtube channel did a video about 10 years ago about
> "The Great 202 jailbreak:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w
It may be superfluous in this forum, but one should note that the video's
characterization of Brian Kernighan as the father of typesetting at Bell
Labs does great disservice to Joe Ossanna, who single-handedly
brought the first phototypesetter to the labs, subjected it to computer
control, and wrote troff (which lives on 50 years later) to drive it.
In passing, the video denigrates the C/A/T because it had a fixed font
repertoire and no general graphic capability. But without the antecedent
of C/A/T and troff, the famous Linotron summer-vacation project would
never have been undertaken.
Doug
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2024-01-10 18:25 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
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2024-01-09 9:05 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-09 6:32 Brian Walden
2024-01-07 13:42 Douglas McIlroy
2024-01-05 22:17 [TUHS] " Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-05 23:19 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2024-01-06 0:12 ` Will Senn
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2024-01-06 15:06 ` Will Senn
2024-01-06 1:06 ` Al Kossow
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2024-01-06 14:42 ` amp1ron
2024-01-06 3:02 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 3:22 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-01-06 4:06 ` Jonathan Gray
2024-01-06 4:06 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 18:33 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-06 21:04 ` Rich Salz
2024-01-06 21:38 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-10 16:32 ` Michael Parson
2024-02-10 19:43 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-07 2:17 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-07 2:25 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-07 2:54 ` Phil Budne
2024-01-07 3:21 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-07 3:55 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-10 16:53 ` Michael Parson
2024-01-10 17:45 ` Clem Cole
2024-01-07 10:54 ` Brian Walden
2024-01-07 12:12 ` arnold
2024-01-08 0:20 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-01-06 14:52 ` Will Senn
2024-01-06 16:52 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-06 16:54 ` Al Kossow
2024-01-06 18:28 ` G. Branden Robinson
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