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ROFF is the simplest of the runoff programs but is utterly frozen.

I started with the -ms macro package so I had fondness for it, but =
switched to -mm over time.     I had done some work (after not being =
able to pry a version Dennis Mumaugh had written out of the agency) on =
putting classification marking and formatting in it.    I had restyled =
it to make the output look like the standard IBM formatting when we were =
doing UNIX work under contract for IBM.

At Hopkins, we had a small furor when Mike (Michael John) Muuss wrote =
his own macro package and installed it as tmac.jm (invoked by the -mjm =
option).   This led to lots of jokes about renaming programs and options =
after various users.