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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DAEMONs -- what does GCOS mean anyway ?
Message-ID: <1669@frog.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 15:46:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: frog.1669
Posted: Fri Oct 16 15:46:00 1987
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Keywords: nroff/troff

In article <1129@ark.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
> To continue, what does [nt]roff stand for ? (I believe 'off' is something
> like 'output format filter')

Multics had "runoff" (quite a reasonable name).  UNIX Version 6 had "roff"
(small runoff, one would think).  UNIX Version 7 had "nroff" (new roff) and
"troff" (typesetter roff).

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