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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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