On Mar 9, 2022, at 3:06, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

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Document preparation became a widespread use
of Unix, but no stand-alone word-processing system was ever undertaken.

I do seem to remember an attempt by some outfit to sell a standalone

word processors based on troff, but U don't remember the name. It

wasn't a success and failed very quickly.

jaap