Re: How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

Lawrence D'Oliveiro:

Actually,  no. Remember the addition of automatic line
numbers to troff was of great interest to AT&TТs legal
department.

Sounds MSWord-ish to me.  troff is the typesettng assem-
bler, where high-level functionality is  implemented  in
macros and macro packages.  Line-numbering would seem to
be implementable as an output-line trap using a  counter
in  a numeric register...  Perhaps, you were talking not
about troff, but about one of its macro packages?

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