22 Sep
2023
22 Sep
'23
1:08 a.m.
I omitted one crucial fact from my post about Joe Ossanna's influence
on the TTY 37. That happened not in connection with Unix, but with
Multics. When Unix came on the scene, model 37 was already in
production.
Doug
22 Sep
22 Sep
1:14 a.m.
New subject: UNIX Influence on Teletype and Vice Versa
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.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:08:13PM -0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
I omitted one crucial fact from my post about Joe
Ossanna's influence
on the TTY 37. That happened not in connection with Unix, but with
Multics. When Unix came on the scene, model 37 was already in
production.
Doug
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4:57 a.m.
New subject: UNIX Influence on Teletype and Vice Versa
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
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