From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>, gnu@toad.com
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Troff to ps
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:19:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17854.1611793153@hop.toad.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1l4dJe-0036xBC@more.local>
Greg A. Woods <woods@robohack.ca> wrote:
> As I recall even some of the bigger vendors such as Sun and IBM didn't
> offer ditroff in their base OS, but they did offer old troff. Those
> were the days of insane AT&T licensing and all the games competitors
> played around it.
As I recall, AT&T wanted about the same amount of money for ditroff as
for the entire UNIX release. So, of course no UNIX vendor was going to
double the royalty they paid to AT&T for every customer, for a small
improvement in a utility that most customers didn't even use (troff).
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-28 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-26 14:56 Will Senn
2020-07-26 15:31 ` arnold
2020-07-26 15:35 ` arnold
2020-07-26 16:15 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26 17:11 ` arnold
2020-07-26 18:03 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-27 5:24 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-28 0:19 ` John Gilmore [this message]
2021-01-28 1:25 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-28 1:59 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-28 3:19 ` John Gilmore
2021-01-28 12:58 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26 19:05 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-07-26 22:39 ` Noel Hunt
2020-07-27 5:31 ` arnold
2020-07-27 9:19 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-07-27 11:07 ` Brad Spencer
2020-07-27 15:58 ` Will Senn
2020-07-26 15:33 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-27 15:53 ` Will Senn
2020-07-26 18:09 ` Al Kossow
2020-07-26 23:37 Norman Wilson
2020-07-27 15:08 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-07-28 11:33 Doug McIlroy
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