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From: ries@trwrb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Why troff?
Message-ID: <1566@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 13:13:09 EST
Article-I.D.: trwrb.1566
Posted: Thu Jan 29 13:13:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 04:12:59 EST
Reply-To: ries@trwrb.UUCP (Marc Ries)
Distribution: comp.text
Organization: TRW Operations and Support Group
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Keywords: TeX, troff

In article <999999999.UUCP> jp@.UUCP (Joe Programmer) writes:
> [TeX vs. troff ad infinitum]

  Our site has both TeX(LaTeX)  and  troff(ms/me/mm).  Each  have
  their advantages/disadvantages.

  One thing that hasn't been mentioned in  the  debate,  is  that
  there  are  a large number (100K+?) of older and/or non-PC UNIX
  boxes (like the Altos and Tandy machines) that  1)  don't  have
  the  disk  space to do credit to TeX/LaTeX and/or 2) don't have
  any decent Pascal compilers.  Ya, I know,  as  soon  as  I  get
  raised flooring in my den I'm ganna upgrade... ;-).

  While *every* owner  of  one  of  these  boxes  had  access  to
  nroff/troff, the same can't be said for TeX.

  Marc Ries, trwrb!ries