Re: How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

I wrote:

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?

The message above was typeset in nroff from the  following
sounce:

  Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
  .(Q
  Actually, no. Remember the addition of automatic line numbers to troff was
  of great interest to AT&TТs legal department.
  .)Q
  Sounds MSWord-ish to me.
  troff is the typesettng assembler,
  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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