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Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 21:47:14 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
>
>> On 8/13/24 2:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:40:55 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
>>> 
>>>> A curious WP thing:  I temped for some title insurance people for a
>>>> few weeks. They had a system where knowledgeable people would fill in
>>>> (pencil) a template with codes indicating various descriptions etc.
>>>> for the drones to type in.  After a while I (a drone) realized that
>>>> the whole system was done with Word Perfect macro codes, a pretty
>>>> slick application.
>>> 
>>> So they were reinventing the kind of thing that typesetting markup
>>> systems (troff/groff, TEX, SGML) have been doing for decades.
>> 
>> Possibly, but these were generating legal documents with a lot of 
>> legalisms of various sorts and combinations, not just making pretty 
>> documents.
>
> One of the groundbreaking features of troff was its ability to do line 
> numbering -- rather important in legal documents such as patent 
> applications.
>
> That was likely crucial in getting the Bell Labs crew the funding from the 
> higher-ups at AT&T to develop Unix.

Thanks for sharing that.  Can you give me a historical reference about
that?  I'd like to read it.  Thank you!

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50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution "internetado" <internetado@fanless.alt119.net> - 2024-08-11 18:38 -0300
  Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-08-12 11:51 +0042
    Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-08-12 15:03 +0000
      Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-08-12 15:18 +0000
    Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-12 23:09 +0000
  Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-08-12 08:24 -0700
    Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2024-08-12 17:12 +0100
      Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-08-12 10:04 -0700
        Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2024-08-12 21:45 +0100
        Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2024-08-12 21:53 +0100
          Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-08-13 08:40 -0700
            Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-13 21:51 +0000
              Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2024-08-13 21:47 -0700
                Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-14 05:41 +0000
                Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-08-14 13:34 -0300
                Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-08-14 19:58 +0000
    Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-12 23:12 +0000

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