Old-school technical writing with groff

Posted by bob on Aug 7, 2022 4:36 PM EDT
Opensource.com; By Jim Hall
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One of my favorite stories about Unix is how it turned into a text processing system. Brian Kernighan tells the story in his book Unix: A History and a Memoir (chapter 3) but to summarize: The Unix team at Bell Labs ran the original Unix on a PDP-7 computer, but it was a tiny system and didn't have sufficient resources to support new work.

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