From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 10:54:01 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF? In-Reply-To: <20180514155810.32B6918C0A4@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20180514155810.32B6918C0A4@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 9:58 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Clem cole > > > Thinking about this typesetter C may have been later with ditroff. > > Not so sure about that; we had that C at MIT, but only regular troff (which > had been hacked to drive a Varian). > > > From: Arnold Skeeve > > > It seems to be shortly after the '78 release of V7. > > No, typesetter C definitely pre-dated V7. The 'PWB1' system at MIT had the > new > C. > > Looking at the documentation files for the extension (e.g. addition of > 'long's), none of them have dates in them (alas), but my hard-copy > printout of > one is dated "May 8 1978", and it was several years old at that point. > > (Also, several sources give '79 for V7 - Salus says 'June 1979'). > The kernels in the release tapes from TUHS are dated June 8, 1979. They are the latest dated files in the archives (apart maybe from a few directories). Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: