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TUG Steering Commitfee TUG Steering Commitfee Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of 'LE)C-arcane Richard Palais, Chairman of the Steering Committee Robert Morris, Secretary and Wisard of Macros Samuel Whidden, Treasurer Robert Welland, TUGboat Editor Luis Trabb-Pardo, Vice Grand Wisard Ignacio Zabala, Wizard of TjijX-in-Pascal David F'uchs, Wizard of 1/0 and SAIL Barbara Beeton, Wizard of Format Modules Nicholas Allen, Wizard of TOPS-10 Arnold Pizer, Wizard of TOPS-10 Phil Sherrod, Wizard of TOPS-10, Coordinator for DEClO Patrick Milligan, Wizard of TOPS-20, Coordiaator for DECSO Michael Spivak, Wizard of AH-= Richard Zippel, Wiaard of ITS Hermann Zapf, Wizard of Fonts Charles Howerton, Liaison with the National Bureau of Standards Richard Friday, Liaison with Digital Equipment Corporation Michael Bennett, Foreign Distribution of QJC Site Coordinators Eagle Berns, Coordinator for IBM 370 Thea Hodge, Coordinator for CDC Cyber Scott McCourt, Coordinator for Burroughs Monte Nichols, Coordinator for VAX Ralph Stromquist, Coordinator for Unim 1100 Very few compositors are fond of algebra. Thomas MacKellar The American Printer: A Manual of ~ography, Philadelphi$ MachIlar, Smiths & Jordan, 1871. THE 'QjX USERS GROUP NEWSLETTER EDITORROBERT WELLAND VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 ' PROVIDENCE TUGboat, Vdume 2, No. 1 ADDRESSES OF TUG boat AUTHORS 6 February 1981 BEETON, Bdua INCmPI, Janet mcr, L~OA. American Mathematical Society Department of Compukr &boa Bell Northern Inc. P.O. Box 6248 Brown Unirerrif 685A MiddMeld Road Providence., RI 02040 Box 1910 Mountaii View, CA 040424 401-272-0500 Providence, IU OaOla 415-960-9170 401-86S3342 BE6LN8, Em SIIEILBOD, PM Po@ 2iM KELLER, Arthur M. Box 15W, Station B Stanford Center for Infolp~tion Department of Computer Science Vmderbilt UniversitJ Pro- Stanford Unh* Nauhvflle, TN 37B5 Stanford Unirenity Stanford, CA 0405 615-32%7?311, ext. 2051 Stanford, CA 04305 415-497-3227 STROMQUIST, Rah D~AZ,Mu 8- MACC Mathemtics Departmeat Stanford Univsrsi4y University of Wirrcowlu Stanford University P.O. Box 0414 1210 w. D@on street Stanford, CA 94305 Stanford, CA 94305 h4adimn, WI 53706 415-327-8483 415-320-0081 60&26%88al DOHERTY, Barn LAWSON* Cbulso L. TOTLAND, uelge American Mathematical SodetJ Jet Propubion Lab Compukr A/S P.O. Box 6248 M9 125/138 Box 310 Pra*ldence, RI 02840 4800 Oak Grove D* ~-maHIVIL, Norway 401-272-0500 Pasadena, CA 01103 213-3544S21 WELLAND, ROW ECK, Dm Depsrtment of Mathemath Department of Mathemath MILLIGAN, Patrkk Northwestern University Dutmouth College Bell Northern Remuch, hc. 2038 Sheridan Road Hanwer, NH 08755 685A Middlctleld Road E-on, IL aoaoi Mountah View, CA WQ 312-8642898 FUCHB* D.rld 415-968-9170, ext. 2887 Department of Computer Science WHIDDEN, 8~11~1B. Stanford Univer6ity MORRIS, Bob& American bdrthematicd Sow Stanford, CA 94305 Mathematics Department P.O. Box 6248 (15-497- 1646 WSat Bwton Providence, RI 02940 Boston, MA 01125 40 1-272-0500 HlRBT, Gmme 617-287-1000, axt. a545 Depamnent of Computer Sdenw WBIGHT, Ah Brown University PALAIS, Richard S. Box 1577, Btatlon B Providence., RI 02012 Department of Mathemath Vmderbilt University 401-863-3800 Brrmdeia Unhrrttg Nawhrille, TN 37235 Waltham, MA 02154 815-322-7311 HODGE, Ther D. 617-647-2667 University Compu- Center ZABALA, a08 Union st. S.E. Department of Computer Mmnce UniPerrity of Miamrot. sword unfveroity Minneapolis, MI 56455 Stanford, CA 94805 812-373-4599 TUGboat is the newsletter of the '&X Users Group (TUG), and is published irregularly for TUG by the American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 6248, Providence, R.I. 02940. Annual dues for individual members of TUG are $10.00; one subscription to TUGboat is included. Applications for membership in TUG should be addressed to the '&X Users Group, c/o American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 1571, Annex Station, Providence, R.I. 02901; applicatiow must be accompanied by payment. Manuscripts should be submitted to the TUGboat Editor, Robert Welland, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University, 2033 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Ill. 60201; items submitted on magnetic tape shodd be addressed to Barbara Beeton or Barry Doherty, American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 6248, Prmidence, R.I. 02940. Submissions to TUGboat are not refereed. Some are minimalIy edited, and some are reproduced directly front copy submitted by the authors. Any questions regarding the content or accuracy of particular item8 shodd be directed to the authors. TUGboat, Volume 2, No. 1 Editor's natt: This isme b esptcidty hge beeawe VAX Monte mob Sandla National Labontories dl &em receiotd by presr lime hat been imMed. Livemom, CA 04550 The Editor bekuea W infomation shouM be mhqp.d 415-42%2T06 to the TUG wmbership as soon aa poesibk, so nothing is being hehi over far anather hau. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT General Delivery Richard S. Palais *********** The Steering Committee of TUG met for mod of the day on January 9 at the San Francisco Hilton. SITE COORDINATORS Much of what transpired at that meeting is reported Robert Welland on elsewhere in this newsletter. I would like to The foltowhg people, who are bringing up '&X concentrate here on two aspects of the discussions. on machines at their institutions, have agreed to The first of these is a continuing strong division be site coordinators. Their primary responsibility of opinion on the question of "maintenanceR, is to get T)ijX running and when this is done to write a matter that many will remember already evoked up a report for TUGboat. They have also agreed considerable debate at the fist TUG meeting. The to answer a lited number of questions; they offer disagreement is over which of two goals, both ob- this help for free and the time to do so comes from viously desirable, should take precedence. One goal very busy schedules. If you are not involved with is that "QjC should remain as "free" as possible and bringing up m, please wait for the site reports to the other is that "QJC should be as carefully and appear in TUGboat. Hopefully, they will answer professionally maintained as possible. At one ex- most questions and make manageable the burden treme are the large "production" users who would the site coordinators will have to bear. like rapid and dependable advice and help with all Jf pu are bhging up ljijC on one of the fol- their software problems. For them 'I)iJC will be one lowing machines please inform the appropriate per- module in a complex system. They have deadlines son; otherwise send the information to the TUGboat to meet that require that all these modules work, editor, Robert Welland. and they are used to, willing, and able to pay up to several thousand dollars per year to have real ktt McCourt or imagined bugs exorcised on the spot and have Burroughs Corp. B.C.S. ProJeet their software tailored, tuned, and customired for Corporate Drive, Commerce Puk Danbury, CT 06810 them. At the other extreme is the single, small 203-704-0101 art 515 user with little or no money to spend but com- Thss Hodm ~nived~c~rnpotingCenter petent, willing and able to invest his time and effort awl Unlon St. 81. in %king for himself. Complicating mat- University of Minnesota Mbneapolis MN 55455 ters is a third and perhaps aver-riding goal, the need to assure that there remains a single, stand- Phil Sherrod ard compatible across many machine ar- Box 1577 Station B "w, VanderbIlt Univeniw chitectures and output devices. Fortunately these Nashville, TN 372s goals and the constituencies supporting them are not 615-322-7811 ed2951 DEcao running Patrick Mlligan really conflicting, but rather orthogonal. With care under TOPS20 Bell Northern Research Inc and compromise there does not seem to me to be 685 A bdiddlefleld Rb: Mountain Via,CA 04043 any serious reason why the various categories of 'QJC 415-969-9170 crxt 2887 users cannot all have their needs met. But it is clear ;gEY that to avoid nonproductive conflicts and pol aria^ Stanford Center for Infornutlan tions everyone in TUG will have to keep in mind that pmcrrdng the TUG membership is anything but homogeneous Stanford UnireniQ Stanford, CA 9YOb and several different options will frequently have to 416-407-4382 be provided to satisfy all the diiTerent classes of '&jX Ralph Strompuirrt Academic Corn owCanter users. ~niosnityd VJlcDnsin The second matter I would like to discuss is the 1210 W. Dayton Sf. Madbon, W 55706 Steering Committee's decision to call for a 'I,)$ go&ste088ai Implementation Workshop at Stdord in the middle TUGboat, Volume 2, No. 1 of May. This will be a two day meeting. One day ffle), but also, once a simple interface program is will be a demonstration day, open to all present written for a given output device, METAFONT will and prospective TUG members. This is meant to create the character shape files, in the form of raster give sn opportunity to become familiar with the patterns stored as, say, matrices of seros and ones. various components of the 'I)e;K system, and in par- Such METAFONT interfaces have now been written ticular with the different output device options. (At for aver a half dozen output devices, running from present at Stanford it is possible to have a 'QX- the super high resolution (5300 dotlinch) Alphatype produced DVI file output on any one of a Xerox CRS to the low resolution (128 dotlinch) Florida XGP or a Versatec electrostatic printer/plotter, an Data impact printer. Alphatype CRS typesetter, or a Canon or Xerox So what is rapidly approaching is the flna1 phase (Dover) laser printer.) The other day is aimed of the 'QX implementation program, the creation primarily at those actively or prospectively engaged of the back-end systems which for a given host in the implementation of 'QjX systems and the goal mainframe and output device will, from the DVI jile is to maximize the amount of help and information and character shape files, produce the hardcopy out- these people can exchange with each other and with put.
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