[TUHS] v6 Unix Documents

Jonathan Gray jsg at jsg.id.au
Sat Oct 19 13:36:05 AEST 2024


On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 08:58:06AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> Noteworthy but frustrating here is that at this point, the forerunner of
> CSTR #54 was still titled simply "NROFF Users' Manual" (PDF pp. 173ff.).
> References to troff are present, but the typesetting program is not
> fully documented.  Frustrating!

PWB was an early external distribution with troff.

Documents for the PWB/UNIX Time-Sharing System
https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Bits:30007124
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/PWB_UNIX/

NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
October 11, 1976
datamuseum.dk, pp 325-357
bitsavers, pp 217-249

Addendum to the NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
May 1977
datamuseum.dk, p 358
bitsavers, p 250

fonts described in:
Administrative Advice for PWB/UNIX
23. PHOTOTYPESETTING EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
datamuseum.dk, p 647


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