Laboratoire de Typographie Informatique, Univ. Louis Pasteur, Publ. IRMA Strasbourg 258/D-07, janvier 1985, 84 pages

Dominique Foata and Yves Roy

TeX/SM90

Abstract. This eighty-four-page volume is essentially an instruction manual, for implementing the TeX/SM90 software and using it. The computer SM90, a so-called mini-computer (intermediate between the ancient Main Frames and the micro-computers appearing in the late eighties) was constructed by the TELMAT Society. The price to pay for the Strasbourg Laboratoire de Typographie Informatique to obtain such a computer was to succeed in implementing the TeX software successfully. This was rapidly done by Yves Roy, who could masterly explained his expertise in the book "TeX/Web et le treatment de textes mathématique, Paris, Masson, 1984."

The TeX software was implemented on the SM90 computer under the SMX system, a version of UNIX created by the INRIA engineers.It contained a full-page editor, EMIN. The only backslash in the early eighties was to be confined with a printer, such as TOSHIBA P1351, whose 180 points per inch resolution was so poor.

foata@unistra.fr

As an illustration, the first two pages of the instruction manual (in French)