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A comment on First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) [pdf].

Re:First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) ... by dwheeler on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:46AM (#28455688)
Look, developers who cared enough to write some documentation. In 1971. With a highly constrained environment. They documented more than some developers do today :-).
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Re:First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (1971) ... by commandersaki on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:46PM (#28465643)
Probably dogfooding; a central reason for original UNIX was typesetting/documentation.
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