Papers on hacking a typesetter

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 2 19:22:35 UTC 2014


This is a historical piece on a Bell Labs experience in hacking on a typesetter.

That it combines serious matters with matters whimsical may be gleaned
from the title:

Experience with the Mergenthaler Linotron 202 Phototypesetter, or, How
We Spent Our Summer Vacation.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/

Paper by Joe Condon, Brian Kernighan and Ken Thompson, written in
1980, I suspect produced on said typesetter.

Further entertainment comes from a subsequent paper that describes the
process of reconstructing the initial paper so that it could be read
using modern means (e.g. - as a well-formed PDF document).
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