OT: computer nostalgia (was RE: Rapid once deployed too)

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 05, 2006, Bob Stockler wrote:
>Jay R. Ashworth wrote (on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 07:53:56PM -0400):
>
>| On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:03:15PM -0400, Bob Stockler wrote:
>| > Snapp also had a multi-terminal board (I think, and think it
>| > could allow 24 terminals to connect).
>| 
>| I heard about that, but never saw it.
>
>Snapp demonstrated it at a TCBUG (or whatever it was called
>at the time) Conference in Fort Worth, way back when.
>
>As I recall, Tom Podnar also had a suite where he was showing
>a product that didn't have to do with backups.  I -think- it
>had to do with printing, and was written by some genius he
>he knew.

That sounds like xroff, a troff implementation that worked nicely with the
laser printers of the day.  John Copeland was the author and owner of Image
Network, at least he made the Bell Labs code work on Xenix and drive laser
printers.  I had the source from John at one time, attempting to cross-
compile it for DOS -- which never was completed.

Bill
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