Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 1997 19:44:14 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id:	<199708290244.TAA12649@adit.ap.net>
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To:	rdebelj AT wt DOT com DOT au (Robert Debeljakovic), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject:	Re: random numbers

At 06:22  8/28/1997 GMT, Robert Debeljakovic wrote:

>Anyone seen vol 3 and above of knuth?
>Apparently there are supposed to be 7 or 8 vols?
I have volumes 1, 2, and 3. Volume 3 is entitled "Sorting and Searching".
The lack of volumes 4-7 is rather a story of itself. Apparently Knuth was
dissatisfied with the typesetting done for the series, and decided to write
his own typesetting language during a sabbatical. This was TeX. It turned
out to be a somewhat larger project than he had anticipated. :-) He
evidently decided to concentrate on it, and the /The Art of Computer
Programming/ was backgrounded until it ceased to be a priority.

(I learned this story from The Jargon File, compiled by Eric S. Raymond)

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net

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