From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 07:01:27 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF?
Message-ID: <20180512110127.0B81418C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > From: Nemo

    > I have read that one of the first groups in AT&T to use early Unix was
    > the legal dep't, specifically to use *roff to write patent applications.
    > Can anyone elaborate on this or supply references?

Are you familiar with the description in Dennis M. Ritchie, "The Evolution of
the Unix Time-sharing System":

  https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.htm

(in the section "The first PDP-11 system")? Not a great deal of detail, but...

    > It would also be interesting to learn how the writers were taught *roff,
    > what editors were used

I'm pretty sure 'ed' was the only editor available at that point.

    Noel