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    Morristown, NJ  07960

That's Bell Labs isn't it?

The 'obscure language' used is troff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff

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Bell Labs is in Murray Hill, Morristown is ~30mins away.

This mentions Morristown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telcordia_Technologies

Seems somehow related though, what with the troff commands.

Here's where the example is from, it appears:

http://cmd.inp.nsk.su/old/cmd2/manuals/unix/UNIX_Unleashed/c...

Also: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-05-14/business/86020...

So... not Bell Labs, I guess, but maybe something related?

See my comment in this thread.

Telcordia/Bellcore was a spinout from Bell Labs after the DOJ antitrust action in the early 1980s. Bell Labs stayed with AT&T and Bellcore was the R&D lab for the newly created Baby Bells composed of many staff from Bell Labs.

Bellcore/Telcordia was spun out from Bell Labs as the R&D lab of the Baby Bells after the early 1980s antitrust suit against AT&T. Before the breakup, there were a number of labs that composed Bell Labs in NJ, not only in Holmdel.

My father worked in Morristown at Telcordia Technologies/Bellcore in the 1980s/90s and before that at Bell Labs in the 70s.

Bell Labs was not in Morristown. Murray Hill and Holmdel. Holmdel is where they found the noise from the Big Bang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmdel_Horn_Antenna

Not necessarily. Wasn't _Creative Computing_ magazine based there?

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