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Den 2023-03-12 skrev Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid>:
> Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Not all of them where done on graphical office applications.  Kernighan's books
>>> are typeset with pic|tbl|eqn|troff -ms (as stated in page iv of K&R).
>>>
>> I guess he had to given his role in early UNIX development :-)
>
> They had to justify their funding to AT&T management :-)
>
>     https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/taoup.pdf
>
>     Unix's first real job, in 1971, was to support what would now be called
>     word processing for the Bell Labs patent department; the first Unix
>     application was the ancestor of the nroff(1) text formatter.  This
>     project justified the purchase of a PDP-11, a much more capable
>     minicomputer. Management remained blissfully unaware that the
>     word-processing system that Thompson and colleagues were building was
>     incubating an operating system. Operating systems were not in the Bell
>     Labs plan - AT&T had joined the Multics consortium precisely to avoid
>     doing an operating system on its own.

Thanks for the PDF. It is created by pdfTeX14.h so right on topic :-)

Kernighan himself on Computerphile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFK6RG47bww&list=PLzH6n4zXuckqZ90zLyy36qjO5YIn1RulG

/Martin

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