From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 12685 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2023 21:04:45 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 9 Mar 2023 21:04:45 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFEC4129B; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:04:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from nsstlmta09p.bpe.bigpond.com (nsstlmta09p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.9]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6FEE4128E for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:04:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.24.4]) by nsstlfep09p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20230309210433.BNWN31065.nsstlfep09p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:04:33 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvhedrvdduiedgudegvdcutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfupfevtfgpvffgnffuvffttedpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecugedttdenucenucfjughrpeffhffvufgjkfhffgggtgesthdttddttdervdenucfhrhhomhepffgrvhgvucfjohhrshhfrghllhcuoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeekieetjeeuuefhfeeguedvudeifeevudfgvedtffekhfffjeekhfdutdetheethfenucfkphepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhephhgvlhhopegrnhgvuhhrihhnrdhhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrghdpihhnvghtpeduuddtrddugedurdduleefrddvfeefpdhmrghilhhfrhhomhepuggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrghdpnhgspghrtghpthhtohepuddprhgtphhtthhopehtuhhhshesthhuhhhsrdhorhhgpdhrvghvkffrpegtphgvqdduuddtqddugeduqdduleefqddvfeefrdhnshifrdgrshhprdhtvghlshhtrhgrrdhnvghtpdhgvghokffrpeetfgdpoffvtefjohhsthepnhhsshhtlhhrghduvdhpqdhsvhgt X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.812) id 6407D7E9005F7F56 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:04:33 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 329L4WMg054704 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:04:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 329L4VbE054701 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:04:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:04:31 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <944F23E0-DBB0-45E3-AE08-3CF17AE98426@pobox.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID-Hash: 6Q4XO7E2XNN4JB3P6ET5INGKRKTQFLK7 X-Message-ID-Hash: 6Q4XO7E2XNN4JB3P6ET5INGKRKTQFLK7 X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fifth Edition Manual Restoration List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Rob Pike wrote: > I had an idea. I asked Tom Duff, Mike Tilson, Bill Reeves to help me put > together tools and font digitizations to "print" nroff output to the > Versatec plotter one weekend in early 1978. [...] We did something like that for our LV-11; I vaguely remember italics being implemented by "sloping" the text, and bold by offsetting by a dot. Mind you, that Versatec spent most of its time plotting biorhythm charts for the operators and their GFs; well, this was the 70s, man... -- Dave