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Original author(s) | Joe Ossanna, Ken Thompson |
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Developer(s) | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
Initial release | November 3, 1971 |
Operating system | Unix and Unix-like |
Type | Command |
roff is a typesetting markup language. As the first Unix text-formatting computer program, it is a predecessor of the nroff and troff document processing systems.[1]: 290
Roff was a Unix version of the runoff text-formatting program from Multics, which was a descendant of RUNOFF for CTSS (the first computerized text-formatting application). [1]