[COFF] [TUHS] Re: UNIX Roff Manual

[John R Levine]

> Yeah, I wasn't specific enough.
> The ownership of the model 67 changed to the State of NJ, but it was
> operated and present at Princeton, until replaced by a 370/158, which in
> turn changed owners back to Princeton in 75.
>
> What OS did you use on the 67?

On the /67 I used TSS with a free account they gave me for being in a 
local computer club.  On the /91 I mostly used the free stuff but one 
summer in the early 70s I had a job speeding up an Ecom professor's 
Fortran model.  Compiling it with Fortran H rather than G, and adjusting 
an assembler routine that managed an external file not to open and close 
the file on every call helped a lot.

Paul Hilfinger had a long career at UC Berkeley and is easy to find if you 
want to ask him if he has any of his old papers.

R's,
John

>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 6:58 PM John Levine <johnl at taugh.com> wrote:
>
>> It appears that Tom Lyon <pugs78 at gmail.com> said:
>>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>>>
>>> Jonathan - awesome!
>>> Some Princeton timing: the 360/67 arrived in 1967, but was replaced in the
>>> summer of 1969 by the 360/91.
>>
>> No, the /67 and /91 were there at the same time.  I used them both in high
>> school.
>> I graduated in 1971 so that must have been 1969 to 71, and when I left I'm
>> pretty
>> sure both were still there.
>>
>> R's,
>> John
>>
>>
>>> BWK must've got started on the 7094 that preceded the 67, but since it was
>>> FORTRAN the port wasn't hard.
>>> Now I wonder what Paul Hilfinger did and whether it was still FORTRAN.
>>>
>>> I graduated in 1978, ROFF usage was still going strong!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 5:42 PM Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 09:45:57PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 at 1:51 PM, segaloco <
>>>> segaloco at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Just sharing a copy of the Roff Manual that I had forgotten I
>> scanned a little while back:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://archive.org/details/roff_manual