Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:39:43 -1000 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 42 Message-ID: <87y1rr979s.fsf@localhost> References: <11372744-628f-4a7a-be20-2dfb2b71900bn@googlegroups.com> <87pmd5vzan.fsf@localhost> <1261767305.691541364.133032.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b88209ee0d9383ad360a0e09491ec2a9"; logging-data="2786555"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+opVos3ELh0YIqQmtJYOocaFdRdquHnNA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mankGeX0ITuEYP2GdWWcw9eXVlo= sha1:wGmbDf3j5NiEyjg7BQG9exTaPfo= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:222883 Thomas Koenig 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