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Article #2976Re: Q: nroff character sizes
From: Phil Ronzone
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 19:35
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 19:35
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In article <1991Jun11.115142.8419@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: >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. Actually, troff was written first. Nroff was a hack of troff that came after. -- Philip K. Ronzone (pkr@sgi.com) [OLD & HyperMedia Project] Silicon Graphics, Inc. MS 9U-500 work (415) 335-1511 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94039 fax (415) 969-2314 "Gibber at that, ye scurvy rats", pkr "Why, you little ...", Homer Simpson
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