Re: ms, then mm, then man (was: mm(7) DT string and super/subscripts)

[Damian McGuckin]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, Damian McGuckin wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> >  I need to correct myself here.  mm(7) is significantly older than I
> >  thought.  As others have noted, and as I found in a Version 10 Research
> >  Unix bibliography[1], we can date mm back to 1976.
>
> That was the date of the first formal publication about those macros.
>
>          Documentation tools and techniques
>          J. R. Mashey, D. W. Smith
>          ICSE '76: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on
>          Software
>          engineering
>          October 1976 Pages 177-181
>          Published:13 October 1976
>
> (the PDF is available from the ACM).

I meant 'external' publication rather than 'formal'.

John Mashey kindly checked his old documents yesterday. The first version 
in Q4 1975 or Q1 1976 and it was in wide use at Piscataway in Q2/Q3 1976.

Stay safe - Damian

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