From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX Influence on Teletype and Vice Versa
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:57:32 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2309221454240.55293@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230922011424.GO28844@mcvoy.com>
On Thu, 21 Sep 2023, Larry McVoy wrote:
> This is perhaps silly, but I really wanted to meet Joe Ossanna because
> of troff. It was not meant to be. My dad told me you aren't dead until
> they stop talking about you. Good to see that Joe is still with us.
I still remember being blown away when I encountered ROFF on Edition 5;
like, I didn't know that you could use a computer for that sort of
thing...
(Yeah, I quickly discovered that Unix was first and foremost a typesetting
system after I read the Bell Labs paper.)
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-22 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-22 1:08 Douglas McIlroy
2023-09-22 1:14 ` Larry McVoy
2023-09-22 4:57 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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2023-09-18 20:02 Douglas McIlroy
2023-09-18 18:07 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-18 18:21 ` [TUHS] " Ronald Natalie
2023-09-18 18:27 ` Paul Winalski
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