[COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday,  6 November 2020 at 10:53:59 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> However, the UNIX boxes we often bought 'daisy wheel' typewriters
> that had RS-232C interfaces.  Using nroff, I could then do my papers
> and run it off in the admin's desk at night.

My memory is hazy, but I thought that the daisy wheel printers I knew
(Qume Sprint\5) also had proportional spacing.  I ran into significant
problems with early MS-DOS based formatting software because it made
(frequently incorrect) assumptions about character widths.

Greg
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