looking for Tomas Rokicki's TeX-to-C 1987

[Tomas Rokicki]

The original work I did, I believe, during 1983 or possibly 1984,
and I don't have any possibility of recovering those bits.

I believe development was done on a VAX 11-750, *telnetting*
in with a Heathkit terminal.

But seriously, Tim Morgan and Karl Berry (and others) made so
many essential improvements, I can't imagine what use those old
bits could possibly be . . .

-tom

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:15 PM Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

> On 25/04/2019 00:06, Karl Berry wrote:
> >      I am looking for the original Tomas Rokicki's TeX-to-C from 1987
> >
> > Out of curiosity ... why?
> >
> >      according to
> >
> http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/unix/TeX2.9/tex82/COPYING.POLICY
> >      It should be here
> >
> http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/unix/TeX2.9/tex82/
> >
> > Well, unfortunately, the Unix TeX tape from 1988 was apparently not
> > dumped in its entirety. I doubt any of the original mag tapes are still
> > around, or that they would be readable, or that there's any equipment to
> > read them. At least, I don't know of any way to go down that road.
>
> FWIW if the tape *does* exist and it's a QIC (quarter-inch cassette)
> tape, I have a drive here that works.
>
> Peter
>


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