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Doug McIlroy |
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Re: [Groff] github archives |
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Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:53:16 -0400 |
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Bernd,
It's nice to have papers about RUNOFF and its descendants
all in one place. Between runoff and troff came roff,
first for Multics, which was essentially a rewrite of
RUNOFF, then an expanded version for GECOS at Bell Labs,
written first in BCPL, then reimplemented for Unix, and
eventually superseded by nroff and troff. I have documentation
for the BCPL version, if that would be of interest.
Doug