[TUHS] *roff history as told to GNU

[John Labovitz]

On Jan 13, 2022, at 02:42, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> John Labovitz wrote:
>> The earliest known text-formatting software, TJ-2, was created by
>> MIT-trained computer scientist Peter Samson in 1963.
> 
> I see claimed predecessors are JUSTIFY and TJ-1.  How do you feel about
> those?

I’m sure I looked for TJ-1 when I did this research — an obvious question, given the ‘2’ suffix — but didn’t find anything then. I’m not familiar with JUSTIFY. 

Do you have links/info for those?

—John