[TUHS] Original print of V7 manual?

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Thu Jan 11 02:32:49 AEST 2024


On 2024-01-06 15:04, Rich Salz wrote:
> Also https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/index.html has some papers 
> with
> Brian as co-author that talk about the history or the 202 and the
> background work (troff->ditroff) involved.
> 
> I am sure these have been posted here before.

The <C>omputerphile Youtube channel did a video about 10 years ago about
"The Great 202 jailbreak:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w

A few years ago, a friend of mine gifted me a copy of the book they were
working on that lead to that hack, _The Sicilian Defence_, for which Ken
Thompson designed what is considered to be the first chess font.  I'm 
not
a big chess player, but it is still a neat piece of history.

-- 
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX


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