14 May
2018
14 May
'18
3 p.m.
Hi Dave,
Doug McIlroy wrote:
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAT_(phototypesetter) came later, and
with it the need to support more complex devices than nroff, `new roff'.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
Here's part of the story.
You mentioned "nroff" a few times; would it not have been "troff"
for
their C/A/T photo-typesetter? At least, that was the lore that I
heard...