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                      6: PREFACE
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                      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.
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                     67: .in 4.5i
                     68: A. G. Hume
                     69: .br
                     70: M. D. McIlroy
                     71: .br
                     72: January, 1990
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