11 Feb
2021
11 Feb
'21
5:05 a.m.
I wonder if this was a university BSD/Bell licence vs "everyone else"
thing. I know we had ubiquitous use of nroff, troff and ditroff, in
succession at Leeds and York across 82-84 and onward. That was with a
benson-varian wet process printer from roll paper, cut marks thrown in
free.
because I'd used Tops-10 Runoff at uni, nroff made sense. The guys who
walked in other doors wound up tooled in TeX which I didn't {relax}
get.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 8:37 AM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Greg A. Woods writes:
Ditroff (or sqtroff) was also incredibly rare to non-existent for 99% of
the Unix sites I worked at and visited; even some time after it became
available. Even sites running native AT&T Unix, e.g. on 3B2s, and thus
could easily obtain it, often didn't want the added expense of
installing it.
Maybe for you; I had it everywhere that I worked.