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Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022

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Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
> Brian Kernighan wrote in his PhD thesis on a line printer using
> lower-case letters in 1969.  He also wrote a runoff implementation
> in a Fortran dialect of that age to be able to print it.
>
> The story is in "UNIX: A History and a Memoir", which anybody
> interested in computer history should have read already :-)

lots of 2741 (selectric) terminal on CTSS, Multics, and CP67 in 60s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741
also used for APL (with APL selectric golf ball). 2741 used tilt-rotate
"code" ... translation between computer character and tilt-rotate golf
ball character position.

CTSS (some of the CTSS people had gone to 5th flr for multics, others
went to science center on the 4th flr) runoff was rewritten for CMS
SCRIPT and output runoff on 1403 "TN" (w/lower case; some number of IBM
CP67/CMS documents) ... final copy was sometimes even runoff on 2741
with "film" ribbon (rather than fabric
ribbon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPSET_and_RUNOFF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_(markup)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS

GML was invented at the science center in 1969 and GML tag processing
added to SCRIPT (decade later, GML morphs into ISO standard SGML, after
another decade morphs into HTML at CERN).
http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Generalized_Markup_Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language

one of the first main stream IBM documents done in CMS SCRIPT was 370
architecture document (sometimes called "REDBOOK" for distribution in
RED 3-ring binders). CMS SCRIPT command line options were used to select
printing the full 370 architecture document or the 370 Principles of
Operation subset (w/o all the engineering notes, alternatives,
justification, etc) can be seen from printing with 1403 TN ... something
blocky w/o proportional spacing, predating 3800).

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2022-11-29 12:11 -0800
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      Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2022-11-30 03:11 -0400
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          Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2022-11-30 14:27 -0400
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        Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-11-30 23:10 +0000
          Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2022-11-30 18:19 -0700
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        Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-12-01 15:19 +0000
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