[TUHS] Booting v6

Mirian Crzig Lennox list-tuhs at cosmic.com
Thu Apr 15 03:21:07 AEST 2004


michael_davidson at pacbell.net ("Michael Davidson") writes:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mirian Crzig Lennox" <list-tuhs at cosmic.com>
>>
>> I'm amused that someone would use LaTeX to reproduce a manuscript of
>> dot-matrix source listings and roughly-typewritten commentary.
>>
>> (No offence at all intended to Dr Lions; the genius was clearly all in
>> the content, not the typography.)
>
> When you describe the notes as having been "roughly-typewritten" I think
> that you may have been misled by the quality of the printer that was used.

Not at all; "typewritten" means "written with type": fixed-width,
metal impact type on bars or wheels.  Surely I can't be the only
person on this list who remembers when hardcopy terminals were often
called "typewriters".

cheers,
Mirian


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