On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 08:30:47PM -0400, Dan Plassche wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > > I've seen references to > > "Documents for Use with the Phototypesetter (Version 7)" > > which was likely distributed with the licensed phototypesetter tape in 1977. > > > > What may have been the manual distributed with that tape is also close to > > v7. > > > > https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=Interdata732/usr/source/troff/doc > > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Other/Interdata/ > > > > tuhs Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz > > usr/source/formatters/troff/doc/ > > Looks we have the files from 1977! > > There are 3 distributions on TUHS that have the same general name > and number of source files for the "typesetter c" compiler and > the "new" troff in C: > > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz > ./usr/source/c_compiler > ./usr/source/formatters/
same contents in Distributions/UNSW/7/record0.tar.gz source/formatters/ > > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/spencer_pwb.tar.gz > ./sys/c/c > ./type/croff > ./sys/source/s7/croff > > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Other/Interdata/interdata_v6.tar.gz > ./usr/source/c > ./usr/source/troff Applications/Usenix_77/ug091377.tar.gz 3/ken/nroff_manual/ 'NROFF/TROFF User's Manual' same as interdata troff doc, without some files > > The Spencer PWB tape appears to be 1.0. Dates on files from > sccsid comments on nroff/troff and throughout the system are from > early to mid-1977 making this the earliest set.[1] The files > under the ./type/croff directory and ./sys/source/s7/croff are > the same. > > The UNSW AUSAM tape has the same files as PWB. An initial check > shows some feature flags and structs from PWB are missing for > [nt]roff here. However, there are extra notes on the c changes > and the October 1976 NROFF/TROFF manual source for content > published in the PWB documentation. The latest dates on other > files are from early to mid-1978.[2] > > The Interdata files have lots of added comments and changes with > a late 1978 date listed in some files[3]. It does have extra > READ_ME files confirming that this was pre-release v7 c compiler > for v6, which helps validate the PWB and UNSW content. > > I'll work from the PWB and UNSW files with the plan to send troff > details to the groff list and rebuild the compiler in the > process. Glad to confirm if the build succeeds and I find out > any further details about the compiler if relevant for TUHS. I adapted Tim Newsham's v6 install scripts for PWB if you'd like to run it on simh. https://github.com/jonathangray/pwb/ Base system from the Bostic tapes, troff installed from the Spencer tape. > > 1. Examples: ./usr/man/man0/introduction: May 1977 and > ./usr/man/man0/documents: August 1977 > > 2. As printed in the copy available at: > > > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/PWB_UNIX/Documents_for_the_PWB_UNIX_Time-Sharing_System_Edition_1.0_197710.pdf > > Updates like the January 1978 changes to the dz serial code > provided by Dennis at ./usr/sys/dmr/dz.c. > > 3. Such as ./usr/doc/cman/cman1: June 1978. > > > Best, > > Dan >
