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diff --git a/share/man/man7/roff.7 b/share/man/man7/roff.7 index cff180792b7..8a54db6dc6e 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/roff.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/roff.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.15 2011/09/26 23:07:20 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: roff.7,v 1.16 2011/11/21 23:29:03 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 26 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 21 2011 $ .Dt ROFF 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -971,14 +971,22 @@ using the next-line syntax. .%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 |