[TUHS] *roff history as told to GNU

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Jan 13 06:48:45 AEST 2022


    > From: Dan Cross

    > a port of the _CTSS_ BCPL ROFF sources purportedly written by Doug. I
    > wonder if that was actually a thing, or an error?
    > ...
    > Fortunately, the source [of the original CTSS runoff] is online:
    > ...
    > Indeed; one finds the following in at least one of the Multics RUNOFF
    > source files:

It sounds like all the steps in the chain have pretty definitive evidence -
_except_ whether there was ever a CTSS RUNOFF in BCPL, from Doug.

Happily, we have someone here who should be able to answer that! :-)
	 Noel


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