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by: Jonathan Fine - Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:31 UTC

Tomorrow's TeX Hour will be a general discussion on the themes of society, computers and networks. All views on this are welcome. My personal interest is continuing the good in the past and adopting what is good in the future.

TeX Hour: Thursday 30 June, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time.
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
UK Time Now: https://time.is/UK.

Next week's TeX Hour will be case studies on software documentation. Examples include:

https://docs.alpinelinux.org/user-handbook/0.1a/index.html
https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/
https://www.latex-project.org/help/documentation/
https://numpy.org/doc/stable/
https://docs.python.org/3/

By the way, X-windows turned 38 last week. Its replacement, called Wayland, is now adopted by major Linux distributions, with compatibility with X. This is a nice example of continuity and change.

Here's a link to the 1986 manual for V-system (a predecessor to X). It's a paper manual scanned in as a PDF, with OCR providing search and copy. How things have changed.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/v-system/V_6.0refMan_Jun86.pdf

And you might also be interested in
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/22/the_x_window_system_just/
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/w-the-window-system-before-x-that

with best wishes

Jonathan

If God had a beard, he'd be a UNIX programmer.

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