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Steve Talbott

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  • Steve Talbott

  • Steve Talbott is an author, editor, and former technical writer.
  • Worked with Randal Schwartz in the technical writing group at Tektronix in the late 1970s / early 1980s.
  • Later joined Tim O'Reilly at O'Reilly Media (then O'Reilly & Associates), where he brought Randal's custom troff macros to produce the foundational X Window System books.
  • Co-authored several early UNIX and X Window books, and later wrote extensively on technology and society (including The Future Does Not Compute).

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🔗Camel book 🔗Camel Book troff Macros 🔗 My Summer Temp Job at Tektronix and Learning to Write
These facts are as Randal recalls them, but much time has passed for most of this. If you find a factual error, please email realmerlyn@gmail.com.