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        !             2: PREFACE TO VOLUME 2
        !             3: .LP
        !             4: This selection of supporting papers to accompany Volume 1
        !             5: of the Tenth Edition
        !             6: .UX
        !             7: Programmer's Manual reflects both continuity and
        !             8: change during the decade since the Seventh Edition 
        !             9: when the last such collection appeared.
        !            10: Thirty out of forty papers are completely new, and
        !            11: many of the rest have been substantially
        !            12: rewritten.
        !            13: With few exceptions the papers represent the work
        !            14: of members of the center where
        !            15: .UX
        !            16: was born, Computing Science Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
        !            17: The earlier work of this center has become so widely known that
        !            18: many of the more basic papers from the Seventh Edition
        !            19: could safely be dropped to make way for more recent work.
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: Some papers continue important themes that date from
        !            22: the early days of the system: tools for programming and
        !            23: tools for document preparation.
        !            24: Some address the down-to-earth subject of the
        !            25: care, feeding, and protection of a multifaceted system
        !            26: in an imperfect world.
        !            27: Others address topics in the increasingly pervasive 
        !            28: theme of communications and distributed
        !            29: computing: readily
        !            30: distributable `stream' input/output, cross-machine file systems,
        !            31: the use of intelligent multiplexed terminals,
        !            32: simple worldwide electronic mail.
        !            33: A few papers suggest the breadth
        !            34: of research applications that meet and reinforce each other
        !            35: in this system: music, program verification, 
        !            36: image processing, and graphics.
        !            37: .PP
        !            38: Here one can find more up-to-date information
        !            39: about the popular
        !            40: .I troff
        !            41: family of typesetting software than 
        !            42: in any other published work.
        !            43: One may also see, in the diverse styles of the several
        !            44: authors, various ways to exploit 
        !            45: .I troff
        !            46: and some of its newer rivals.
        !            47: The entire volume is brought together in a
        !            48: .I "tour de force
        !            49: of text processing, the index,
        !            50: which Lorinda Cherry gathered by largely
        !            51: automatic means from a highly disparate electronic corpus.
        !            52: .sp 2
        !            53: .in 4i
        !            54: A. G. Hume
        !            55: .br
        !            56: M. D. McIlroy
        !            57: .br
        !            58: January, 1990
        !            59: .in 0

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