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commit c48dde4811de94896f1f7977770d2c7cc5c43c2f
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Dec 6 02:59:01 2025 -0600
PROBLEMS: Indulge a speculation.
---
PROBLEMS | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/PROBLEMS b/PROBLEMS
index 62c8557e0..5933ed69b 100644
--- a/PROBLEMS
+++ b/PROBLEMS
@@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ or, if you want to be portable to older troff versions, as
follows:
.nr y4 1900+\n(yr
This document was formatted in \n(y4.
+(This defect may have arisen because nroff and troff were originally
+written in PDP-11 assembly language and subsequently translated by hand
+to an early dialect of the C language. The PDP-11 instruction set had
+no integer modulus instruction.)
+
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[groff 1.09]
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