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roff(7)
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Douglas McIlroy |
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roff(7) |
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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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