Book on computer architecture for beginners 727

you can sort of tell when they switched to script. PoP has a lot of boxes for syntax and diagrams. Early versions were typeset.

then they moved the "red book" architecture manual (distributed in 3-ring red binder) to cms script. Depending on the flag used when you invoked script ... it either printed the full architecture manual (lots of sections discussing justification for instructions, varioius trade-offs considered, engineering notes, etc) ... or just the PoP (principle of ops) subset. During this early period ... they were printed on 1403 ... and I guess pubs were generated using photo-offset from the 1403 output.

You could get fairly high quality 1403 with really good ribbon. However 1403 had small gaps printing the vertical lines (you could come pretty close to solid veritical lines if you reset the 1403 to 8lines-in instead of 6lins-in ... but then you got somewhat smashed characters and 88lines-page instead of 66lines-page) solid veritical lines came back when they started using 3800 laser printer (instead of 1403).

cms script was done at the science center

and then "G", "M", and "L", invented GML in 68 plus 1 ... and GML format processing was added to cms script (and generalized markup language was contrived to match their initials). later GML was standardized in ISO as SGML ... which has since begat html, xml, fsml, saml, bpml, et al.

some mention of ibm 3800, cms script ... and the cms script clone from univ. of waterloo ... and the creation of web and html

a picture of 3800

a little history of laser printer and mention the first 3800 installation

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