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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by gpvos on Friday August 18, 2017 @06:16PM (#15050185)
Probably the other way round: roff/troff/nroff is older than TeX. I guess that on old computer typesetters, ` and ' turned into nicely balanced quotes.
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Re:My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) by tankenmate on Saturday August 19, 2017 @12:20PM (#15054169)
roff was the financial back reason that Unix moved from PDP-7 / assembler to PDP-11 / C.

http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/aosref/ritchi...

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