[TUHS] mh/hm, mmh (was: fmt(1): history, POSIX, -t, -c)

Bakul Shah bakul at iitbombay.org
Wed Jun 3 10:43:18 AEST 2020


> Would you be so kind to explain a bit about the hm version of MH.

Not sure what Clem meant but I used "hm" by Jim Guyton (@Rand) on my
Fortune box until I retired it. It provided a 2D interface. Later I
tried xmh but didn't like it.

The early history of MH is covered in some detail in Willis Ware's "RAND
and the Information Evolution" book from page 128 onward. hm & Guyton
get a paragraph on page 136.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/corporate_pubs/2008/RAND_CP537.pdf


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