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Article #2972Re: Q: nroff character sizes
From: Roy Smith
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 11:51
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 11:51
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plona@romulus.rutgers.edu (Lawrence Plona) writes:
> nroff could have been written to do a lot more with line printers.
You're joking, right? At the time nroff was written, you were
lucky to find a line printer that could do anything fancier than print a
subset of ascii (i.e. no lower case) and do linefeeds and formfeeds. Even
if you expand the definition of "line printer" to mean "hard copy terminal"
that above is still largely true.
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