From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:23:44 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:   
      
   > When it was written, Unix' main use to the owning company was producing   
   > phone books with the runoff tools. Those didn't need spell checking of   
   > customer names or addresses, and so had very little text _to_ spell   
   > check.   
      
   Actually, no. Remember the addition of automatic line numbers to troff was   
   of great interest to AT&T’s legal department, which spent a lot of time   
   creating things like patent applications.   
      
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