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, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 26997 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2020 18:16:01 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 Aug 2020 18:16:01 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C2C979C1A9; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 04:16:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139359C16B; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 04:15:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 36F199C16B; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 04:15:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: from ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.142]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95EF29C166 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 04:15:41 +1000 (AEST) X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/email-scanner-virus Received: from grey.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.57.57]:52780) by ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.138]:25) with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) id 1kBM3I-000cIG-90 (Exim 4.92.3) (return-path ); Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:51:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:51:08 +0100 From: Tony Finch To: Clem Cole In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix tools to aid in the production of Internet RFCs? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Clem Cole wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:25 PM Dan Cross wrote: > > > So I'm curious: what tools did people use to produce those documents? > > What was available at the time? Some of the first were done with a > typewriter ;-). That said, a lot of the early ones (1960-thru late 70s) > were done using one of the different flavors of the runoff schemes, with > the PDP-10 family being pretty popular since many of the Arpa supplied > systems were based on PDP6/10s. Yes, very Not Unix. As Dan wondered, the best list for this question is internet-history, I think :-) The Network Information Center was at SRI, and they used the ARC NLS: Doug Englebart's Augmentation Research Center oN-Line System [1] but I get the impression that by the 1990s nroff on Unix was the main tool for producing RFCs. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/finding-aids/102706170-SRI/102706170-SRI.pdf Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ Wight, Portland, Plymouth: West or southwest 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 at first in Wight and Portland, veering northwest 4 to 6 later. Moderate or rough. Thundery showers. Good, occasionally poor.