[TUHS] Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff

[Al Kossow]

On 1/9/24 12:29 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 1/9/24 9:18 AM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> 
>> On the subject of troff origins, in a world where troff didn't exist, and one purchases a C/A/T, what was the general approach to actually 
>> using the thing? 
> Short answer is you bought their proprietary typesetting turnkey systems
> 
> They had to reverse-engineer the phototypesetter hardware to work with any homegrown software to drive it.
> 

and that is a very deep rathole I've gone down before with Compugraphic typesetters