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                               Title of my paper


                                    Jim Hall

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          1.  Introduction


               One  cool thing I like about the history of Unix is how

          Unix developed into a document processing system.  The short

          history of that is the Unix team wanted to  purchase  a  new

          computer to keep working on Unix.  But management said "No."


               Around that same time, the Patents team wanted to buy a

          new  computer  to  write patent applications, but the vendor

          hadn't finished the software yet.  The  Unix  team  went  to

          them and said:


              Hey,  if you buy us a new computer, we'll update the
              existing roff typesetting system so  you  can  write
              patent applications.



               That's  how  Unix  created the first nroff program, new

          roff.  Later, they updated nroff to become troff, the  type-

          setter roff, and even later ditroff, the device idenependent

          version of troff.





















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