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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

In the mid 1980s the Computer Science Department at the University of Rochester began using Typesetter-Independent troff with an experimental laser printer and a strange phototypesetter. This report described their experience, war stories, and advice for implementors of troff post processors.

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=6623&itemFileId=11036

#troff #unix #retrocomputing

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=6623&itemFileId=11036
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Regionales Retro-Rechenzentrum
Regionales Retro-Rechenzentrum
@3rz@freiburg.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@amoroso What a pity and irony, that a document about clean, nice typeset output and its history is represented by a rather bad, pixely scan …

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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@3rz Indeed.

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