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troff was a text oriented macro processor, based on roff, and almost certainly didn't run on the PDP-10, because it was written for unix. Roff was based on runo

by tgv 3y ago

troff was a text oriented macro processor, based on roff, and almost certainly didn't run on the PDP-10, because it was written for unix. Roff was based on runoff, which was for IBM hardware. A more likely candidate would have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACRO-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACRO-10

emmelaich 3y ago
roff was a descendent of TYPESET and RUNOFF; both preceded Unix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPSET_and_RUNOFF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPSET_and_RUNOFF I would not be surprised if some version / implementation of roff ran on PDP-10 under some OS.
- anthk 3y ago
  ITS, for sure.