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From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] troff was not so widely usable (was: The UNIX Command Language (1976))
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:05:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn0qSLtnQ46f_dxXKTCo8TR9_+3sUtM6HC1n8k2rJEDqpg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202102102236.11AMann01820861@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

I wonder if this was a university BSD/Bell licence vs "everyone else"
thing. I know we had ubiquitous use of nroff, troff and ditroff, in
succession at Leeds and York across 82-84 and onward. That was with a
benson-varian wet process printer from roll paper, cut marks thrown in
free.

because I'd used Tops-10 Runoff at uni, nroff made sense. The guys who
walked in other doors wound up tooled in TeX which I didn't {relax}
get.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 8:37 AM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
>
> Greg A. Woods writes:
> >
> > Ditroff (or sqtroff) was also incredibly rare to non-existent for 99% of
> > the Unix sites I worked at and visited; even some time after it became
> > available.  Even sites running native AT&T Unix, e.g. on 3B2s, and thus
> > could easily obtain it, often didn't want the added expense of
> > installing it.
>
> Maybe for you; I had it everywhere that I worked.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-10 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ 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 [this message]
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
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

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