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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-11-21 22:19:23 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-11-21 22:19:23 +0000
commitacd9ca0c1e3c34227220ac722cfeadf927d49b59 (patch)
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Update historical record to be historical and not made-up. Data from
<manpages.bsd.lv/history.html>. Ok schwarze@ (with modifications) and Jason McIntyre.
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.%U http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/troff.pdf
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
-The RUNOFF typesetting system was written in PL/1 for the CTSS
-operating system by Jerome ("Jerry") E. Saltzer in 1961.
-It was first used as the main documentation tool by Multics since 1963.
-Robert ("Bob") H. Morris ported it to the GE-635 and called it
+The RUNOFF typesetting system, whose input forms the basis for
.Nm ,
-Doug McIlroy rewrote it in BCPL in 1969,
-Joseph F. Ossanna rewrote it in PDP-11 assembly in 1973,
-and Brian W. Kernighan rewrote it in C in 1975.
+was written in MAD and FAP for the CTSS operating system by Jerome E.
+Saltzer in 1964.
+Doug McIlroy rewrote it in BCPL in 1969, renaming it
+.Nm .
+Dennis M. Ritchie rewrote McIlroy's
+.Nm
+in PDP-11 assmebly for
+.At v1 ,
+Joseph F. Ossanna improved roff and renamed it nroff
+for
+.At v2 ,
+then ported nroff to C as troff, which Brian W. Kernighan released with
+.At v7 .
+In 1989, James Clarke re-implemented troff in C++, naming it groff.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
This