[TUHS] V7 UNIX on VAX 11/750

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello again from Gregg C Levine
Don't go getting your panties in a twist, Norman, (to quote an old
friend.), I did look before completing the posting. And yes it did say
that. I have here a personal edition of the C book, (I bought it,
because I wanted to have the thing here when I did work in the
language, and needed to double check a reference.). 

I have out a copy of the book that John is kvetching about from my
local library. I checked that one, and it strangely enough agrees with
what you're saying, and with John too. I find it, ah, logical, that
the guys would use a Mergenthaler Linotron 202 typesetter for their
print runs. Actually the word is imagesetter. But that term will do. 
As I recall you worked there for a while, and do know what you're
talking about, so I'm not going to indulge myself in a flame war.
Besides I've actually done enough typesetting so as to be able to
argue the point with the bit brains at Adobe, so I'll even agree with
you now.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org
[mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On
> Behalf Of Norman Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:03 PM
> To: tuhs at tuhs.org
> Subject: [TUHS] V7 UNIX on VAX 11/750
> 
> Look again.  The colophon in my copy of The UNIX Programming
Environment
> (first paperback printing of the first edition) says
> 	This book was typeset in Times Roman and Courier by the
> 	authors, using a Mergenthaler Linotron 202 typesetter driven
> 	by a VAX-11/750 running the 8th Edition of the UNIX operating
> 	system.
> 
> I don't have a copy of the latter-day (now contains ISO) C book, but
> if I recall correctly when it was written, it was probably typed in
> on a VAX 8550 running the 9th edition system.  Probably it was the
> latter-day 9th, which had crept along quite a bit beyond the hasty
> 9/e manual.  After I made some radical changes to the way device
> drivers plugged into the kernel, I changed it to print `9Vr2' when
> it booted, partly to distinguish the old system from the newer one
> and partly to annoy enough people to reach critical energy to
produce
> a 10/e manual.  The tactic took a while but was ultimately
successful.
> 
> For those who don't know the historic chain, the systems loosely
> called V8, V9, and V10 were never real releases in any sense; they
> were just names hung on the continuously-evolving system we ran in
> the 1980s in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs.
> Brian and Dennis and Rob (and, for six years, I) used that system
> for everyday work as well as as a sandbox for systems work; hence
> the credit in the books.  There were tapes called V8 and V9 issued
> to a few specific places under special on-off letter agreement, but
> they correspond only approximately to the like-numbered manuals.
> 
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
> (which feels a lot like New Jersey this evening)
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