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Nroff

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nroff (short for "new roff") is a Unix text-formatting program. [1]

27 relations: Assembly language, AWK, Brian Kernighan, Bryan Cantrill, C (programming language), Compatible Time-Sharing System, Computer program, Computer terminal, Free software, Groff (software), Henry Spencer, Illumos, Joe Ossanna, LaTeX, Lout (software), Man page, MINIX, P. J. Plauger, Printer (computing), Ratfor, Research Unix, Roff (computer program), TeX, Troff, Typesetting, TYPSET and RUNOFF, Unix.

Assembly language

An assembly (or assembler) language, often abbreviated asm, is a low-level programming language, in which there is a very strong (but often not one-to-one) correspondence between the assembly program statements and the architecture's machine code instructions.

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AWK

AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.

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Brian Kernighan

Brian Wilson Kernighan (born January 1, 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.

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Bryan Cantrill

Bryan M. Cantrill (born 1973) is an American software engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following its acquisition of Sun.

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C (programming language)

C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

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Compatible Time-Sharing System

The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), was one of the first time-sharing operating systems; it was developed at the MIT Computation Center.

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Computer program

A computer program is a collection of instructions for performing a specific task that is designed to solve a specific class of problems.

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Computer terminal

A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying or printing data from, a computer or a computing system.

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Free software

Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Groff (software)

Groff (pronounced "gee-roff") (also called GNU troff) is a typesetting system that creates formatted output when given plain text mixed with formatting commands.

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Henry Spencer

Henry Spencer (born 1955) is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast.

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Illumos

illumos is a free and open-source Unix operating system.

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Joe Ossanna

Joseph F. Ossanna (December 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan – November 28, 1977, Morristown, New Jersey) worked as a member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

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LaTeX

LaTeX (or; a shortening of Lamport TeX) is a document preparation system.

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Lout (software)

Lout is a batch document formatter invented by Jeffrey H. Kingston.

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Man page

A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system.

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MINIX

MINIX (from "mini-Unix") is a POSIX-compliant (since version 2.0), Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture.

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P. J. Plauger

Phillip James (Bill) Plauger (born January 13, 1944, Petersburg, West Virginia) is an author, entrepreneur and computer programmer.

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Printer (computing)

In computing, a printer is a peripheral device which makes a persistent human-readable representation of graphics or text on paper.

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Ratfor

Ratfor (short for Rational Fortran) is a programming language implemented as a preprocessor for Fortran 66.

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Research Unix

Research Unix is a term used to refer to versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center (frequently referred to as Department 1127).

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Roff (computer program)

roff was the first Unix text-formatting computer program, the most important application run on the first machine specifically purchased to run UNIX, and a predecessor of the nroff and troff document processing systems.

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TeX

TeX (see below), stylized within the system as TeX, is a typesetting system (or "formatting system") designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978.

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Troff

troff is the major component of a document processing system developed by AT&T Corporation for the Unix operating system.

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Typesetting

Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical typesDictionary.com Unabridged.

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TYPSET and RUNOFF

RUNOFF was the first computer text formatting program to see significant use.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff

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