Bell Tech Pricing

Jeff Bowles bowles at lll-crg.llnl.gov
Tue Jul 26 23:51:29 AEST 1988


In article <192 at focsys.UUCP> larry at focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) writes:
>In article <243 at belltec.UUCP> dar at belltec.UUCP (Dimitri Rotow) writes:
>>
>>Your right, we do emphasize the *complete* part in the ad...
>
>Complete?
>
>You don't get Nroff, or Troff, no online man pages either.  But I
>supose that these are considered a part of some other "option". 

Hold on, there - the nroff/troff support disappeared from *ALL* releases
of System V beginning with System V Release 2.0 in 1984, because of the
availability "as an add-on" of the new "device-independent troff." It was
easier to support (and more profitable to sell separately) this way.

I would blame Bell Tech for a lot of things, but unbundling nroff/troff
isn't one of them.

	Jeff Bowles

ps. I'll emphasize that "Elan" has a fine nroff/troff....



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