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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
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