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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:58:23 -0000 (UTC)
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Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:
> 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  Can you give me a historical reference about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!

Search for "patent" in these two pages, you'll get some info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix

Feel free to also read the remainder of each if you so choose.