Hi Ralph, > Interesting twenty-minute video covering the history of > reverse-engineering the $50,000 Linotron 202 typesetter at Bell Labs in > the late 1970s. http://youtu.be/CVxeuwlvf8w (Hat-tip > https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/412398836628217856.)
Funny coincidence that you mentioned that video on the list not long ago (although I didn't read that post back in december): Since mid november I am again tinkering with my chess typesetting macro package that I began in 1998, as little as it evolved over time. Over the years it got stuck in a state somewhere between complete uselessness and hopeless attempts of getting it in a half-backed shape. As I looked for a replacement chess font for the free Adobe one I used in its most recent incarnation, I stumbled across the "chessfont" from the "Berkeley Font Catalogue" in "ULTRIX-32 Supplementary Documents - General User" (V 3.0) from 1988 (available at: http://www.vaxhaven.com/images/a/ac/AA-MF06A-TE.pdf). So I wrote to Ken Thompson and asked him whether he has a copy of that particular chess font in his archives - it turned out he hasn't. And now, after further investigation, I found that very interesting video on YouTube. I still have the more or less Lino internal use only CORA language reference somewhere… After watching it, I thought about posting it here, not knowing that all this information was already sitting here on the list for three weeks already - which again tells me to follow this list more thoroughly. ;-) Regards, Ralph
