[TUHS] earliest Unix roff

Arthur Krewat krewat at kilonet.net
Tue Sep 17 11:11:17 AEST 2019


On 9/16/2019 8:20 PM, Steve Johnson wrote:
> One day I had been furiously editing a long program file for about an 
> hour and a half when I was called away to lunch, and, being hungry, 
> didn't save
> my file.  When I got back to the terminal an hour later, I discovered 
> two things -- the system had crashed, and our cat had decided that the 
> pile of paper
> on the floor made a great litter box.  After a few choice words, I 
> sighed and picked up my highliter...

This should be engraved on a plaque somewhere. Only because I had almost 
the same thing happen to me, without the cat though. I had a printout of a
"mail" program I had written on TOPS-10 at high school. I had to retype 
the entire thing after the file got corrupted.

Yay MACRO-10


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