Subject: Re: UNIX manpage history: runoff From: Doug McIlroy Date: 28/10/2011 15:58 To: Kristaps Dzonsons > > Question: do you give permission for me to publish our > > correspondences Sure, no problem. > > where exactly were you working in 1969 when originally porting > > RUNOFF? Physically I was at Bell Labs in Murray Hill. During the Multics project, though, we did lots of remote computing at CTSS. I do not remember whether I began working on runoff before or after we withdrew from Multics. > > Saltzer in passing mentioned that you wrote runoff "under CTSS"; > > however, the source record says GECOS. I'm quite sure it was GECOS. If the BCPL got to CTSS, that resolves my uncertainty about timing relative to BTL's withdrawal from Multics. > > I assume GECOS is really GECOS-II, as GE hadn't been bought by Honeywell yet It was GE, not Honeywell. I didn't pay attention to the nomenclature of GECOS versions.