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When I first started using Unix in school in the early 1980s, at least a third of the time was using nroff/troff, tbl and eqn. Maybe another 20% playing rogue
by PopAlongKid 2y ago
When I first started using Unix in school in the early 1980s, at least a third of the time was using nroff/troff, tbl and eqn. Maybe another 20% playing rogue. The rest was used to become a vi/ex advanced user, writing csh and awk scripts, and learning C.
The article mentions the "t" in troff, but doesn't mention that "roff" was short for "run off". I forget what the "n" was for.
- abetusk 2y ago"New" roff [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff