[TUHS] Typesetter C Compiler and Troff (Re: Re: v6 Unix Documents)

Ron Natalie ron at ronnatalie.com
Mon Dec 2 01:40:58 AEST 2024


Agreed, the typesetter C ran on a virgin V6 system.   That was the whole 
point.   It came out before most of us got real V7s.



------ Original Message ------
>From "Noel Chiappa" <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
To tuhs at tuhs.org
Cc jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Date 11/30/2024 11:21:31 PM
Subject [TUHS] Re: Typesetter C Compiler and Troff (Re: Re: v6 Unix 
Documents)

>     > From:
>
>     > I was able to rebuild both the UNSW and the native PWB compiler on PWB
>     > 1.0, but not to backport either to vanilla v6.
>
>Any idea what the problem was? I'm curious, because we ran a version of the
>Typesetter compiler on the MIT systems, which ran an enhanced V6.
>
>	   Noel
>


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