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The page source confirms that it was converted from LaTeX, but TeX itself was only released in 1978 and a sibling comment to yours points out that this article
by schoen 7y ago
The page source confirms that it was converted from LaTeX, but TeX itself was only released in 1978 and a sibling comment to yours points out that this article refers to 1978 as the future:
> Well, if programs can't do better than that by 1978, I shall lose a L250 bet [...]
(presumably £250)
This makes the original format of the document more of a mystery.
- gattilorenz 7y agoThere's a chance it has been written in the "Stanford Artificial Intelligence text editor E (written by Dan Swinehart)", and later converted to TeX: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/oldnotes.html http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/oldnotes.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(text_editor)