>> sufficiently successful to gain the interest of the other author and several
>> colleagues, and later to justify the aquisition of the PDP-11/20, specifically to
>> support and text editing and formatting system. When in turn the PDP-11/20 was
>> outgrown, the system had proven useful enought to pursuade management to invest in
>> the PDP-11/45, and later in the PDP-11/70 and Interdata 8/32 machines, upon which
>> it developed to its present form"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>The "text editing and formatting system" references the first 'C'
>compiler. Even now, 'C' code runs in the "text" segment.
My paper tells that the PDP-11/20 which replaced PDP-7 was needed for
preparing patent papers for Bell patent department, and that the text
formatting system was roff (later nroff).
(my paper written in Finnish is at
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/releases.html
and I got the information most probably from
Bourne, S. R. 1983: The UNIX System. Addison-Wesley, Reading,
Massachusetts.)
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