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        !             6: PREFACE
        !             7: .SP .6i
        !             8: .PP
        !             9: This selection of supporting papers to accompany the
        !            10: Programmer's Manual
        !            11: reflects both continuity and
        !            12: change in the
        !            13: UNIX research system since the last such collection appeared
        !            14: in the seventh edition a decade ago.
        !            15: Three-fourths of the papers are completely new, and
        !            16: many of the rest have been substantially
        !            17: rewritten.
        !            18: Most of the papers represent the work
        !            19: of members of the center where the system
        !            20: was born, Computing Science Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
        !            21: Previous work of this center has become so widely known that
        !            22: many of the more basic papers from the seventh edition
        !            23: could safely be dropped to make way for more recent material.
        !            24: .PP
        !            25: Some papers continue important themes that date from
        !            26: the early days of the system: software tools, program
        !            27: development, text processing, document preparation.
        !            28: Some address the down-to-earth subject of the
        !            29: care, feeding, and protection of a multifaceted system
        !            30: in an imperfect world.
        !            31: Others address the increasingly pervasive 
        !            32: theme of communications and distributed
        !            33: computing: `stream' connections among
        !            34: processes and files on one or more computers,
        !            35: cross-machine file systems,
        !            36: multiplexed (windowed) terminals,
        !            37: worldwide electronic mail.
        !            38: A few papers suggest the breadth
        !            39: of research applications that meet and reinforce each other
        !            40: in this system: music, graphics, protocol verification, 
        !            41: image processing.
        !            42: .PP
        !            43: Here one can find more up-to-date information
        !            44: about the popular
        !            45: .I troff
        !            46: family of typesetting software than 
        !            47: in any other published work.
        !            48: One may also see, in the diverse styles of the several
        !            49: authors, various ways to exploit 
        !            50: .I troff
        !            51: and some of its newer rivals.
        !            52: In the useful index by Lorinda Cherry and the playful
        !            53: .I pico -portraits
        !            54: by Gerard Holzmann, one may enjoy some unusual outputs from
        !            55: .SM UNIX
        !            56: tools.
        !            57: .PP
        !            58: Besides the authors of the individual papers, many other
        !            59: people have helped to bring the tenth edition system into
        !            60: being.
        !            61: They are acknowledged in the preface to Volume 1.
        !            62: The manual is dedicated to the memory of the late Lee McMahon, whose
        !            63: influence pervades the system's approaches
        !            64: to text processing and data networking.
        !            65: .SP 2
        !            66: .LP
        !            67: .in 4.5i
        !            68: A. G. Hume
        !            69: .br
        !            70: M. D. McIlroy
        !            71: .br
        !            72: January, 1990
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        !            80: "\dLee McMahon\u" below at last box.s
        !            81: .PE

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