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Word Processing Using Unix (1982)

by patch_collector on 12/15/18, 7:14 PM with 2 comments

• by patch_collector on 12/15/18, 7:17 PM

  My grandparents and I were talking about technology, and how back in the 80's she'd written manuals for the staff at the University of California's Lick Observatory on how to write and print documents using vi. Reading through this was an interesting look back in time.

• by passthejoe on 12/16/18, 1:35 AM

  By the mid-'80s, when I was at UC Santa Cruz, there was a photocopied manual available at the Bay Tree Bookstore called "Unix for Luddites" that elaborated on what is in this manual. The aim was to get all students and faculty, not just those in computer science, or the sciences in general, to use Unix for writing and printing research papers, essays and more. It used the same two programs -- vi for writing, nroff for formatting.

  I don't know if "Unix for Luddites" ever made it to the web, but if not, I did find my copy, and I will scan it.