From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] banner (was troff was not so widely usable)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 07:09:31 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2102140707470.70858@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrzHfK4cDyCzO=D3a6qXH9CeqxvOGAheQGSGfzHeBgq2Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Warner Losh wrote:
> I wrote one in 83. And several of my fellow students at college did this
> as well. It seemed to be a common thing back in the day.
I've used lots of different banner programs on various systems; I think
even OS/360 had one (well, ours did anyway).
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-13 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-13 9:00 Brian Walden
2021-02-13 15:20 ` Will Senn
2021-02-13 16:57 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-13 20:09 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-02-13 20:28 ` [TUHS] Any interest in a Dec Alpha or a Sun Sparc 4 Jim Capp
2021-02-13 20:36 ` Earl Baugh
2021-02-13 20:45 ` Jim Capp
2021-02-13 21:24 ` Earl Baugh
2021-02-13 22:13 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-13 22:21 ` [TUHS] banner (was troff was not so widely usable) Mike Markowski
2021-02-14 0:27 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-14 3:33 ` Will Senn
2021-02-15 17:32 ` Tom Lyon
2021-02-13 17:13 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-02-16 19:29 Brian Walden
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