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From: Douglas McIlroy
Subject: roff(7)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:18:04 -0500

The man page roff(7) incorrectly attributes roff to Joe Ossanna.
Ossanna wrote nroff and troff, but roff preceded that work. The name
roff was first used to distinguish a rewrite for Multics from the
original runoff, probably because both were maintained on CTSS.  I
wrote an extended roff in BCPL for GECOS and kept the Multics name.
Ken and/or Dennis rewrote the BCPL program in assembly language for
Unix. There never was a pure runoff for Unix.

Doug



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