Re: Q: nroff character sizes

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From: Lawrence Plona
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 19:32

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>> 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.

Sorry, I did not realize that nroff source was sacred and
unable to be changed.

-Larry Plona
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