Editing TYPSET and RUNOFF (section)

===Other versions and implementations===
A later version of runoff for Multics was written in [[PL/I]] by Dennis Capps, in 1974.<ref>{{cite web
| url = https://manpages.bsd.lv/history/saltzer_23_10_2011.txt
| date = October 23, 2011
| first = Jerry
| last = Saltzer
| author-link = Jerome H. Saltzer
| author-mask = Jerry Saltzer
| title = UNIX manpage history: CTSS RUNOFF
| quote = "compose" was apparently a PL/I re-write of RUNOFF on Multics. […] the secondary record shows Dennis Capps as starting compose in 1974.
}}</ref>
This runoff code was the ancestor of [[roff (computer program)|''roff'']] that was written for the fledgling [[Unix]] in [[assembly language]] by [[Ken Thompson]].

Other versions of Runoff were developed for various computer systems including [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s [[PDP-11]] [[minicomputer]] systems running [[RT-11]], [[RSTS/E]], [[RSX-11|RSX]] on Digital's [[PDP-10]]<ref>{{cite web
| title = The Language List
| date = January 23, 1995
| quote = RUNOFF - An early text-formatting language supported under TOPS-10 on the PDP-10.
| url = https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/ift2030/H99/doc/lang-list.txt
| url-status = dead
| access-date = 2024-04-20
| archive-date = 2018-10-05
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181005112109/https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/ift2030/H99/doc/lang-list.txt
}}</ref> and for [[OpenVMS]] on [[VAX]] minicomputers, as well as [[UNIVAC Series 90]]  mainframes using the [[EDT (Univac)|EDT text editor]] under the [[VS/9]] [[operating system]].  These different releases of Runoff typically had little in common except the convention of indicating a command to Runoff by beginning the line with a period.

The origin of IBM's [[SCRIPT (markup)|SCRIPT]] software began in 1968 when IBM contracted Stuart Madnick of MIT to write a simple document preparation tool<ref>{{cite magazine
| magazine = PC Magazine
| date = March 19, 1985
| title = Script/PC
| quote = IBM contracted Stuart Madnick of MIT to write a simple document preparation
| page = 210
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mI2TxlvjaksC
}}</ref> for [[CP/CMS|CP/67]],<ref name="smadnick">{{cite journal
| title = SCRIPT, An On-Line Manuscript Processing System
| date = August 1968
| doi = 10.1109/TEWS.1968.4322339
| s2cid = 51633921
| last1 = Madnick | first1 = Stuart E.
| last2 = Moulton | first2 = Allen
| journal = IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech
| publisher = [[IEEE]]
| volume = EWS-11
| issue = 2
| pages = 92–100
| url = http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/papers/J002.pdf
| access-date = 2024-04-20
}}</ref> which he modelled on [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]'s [[Compatible Time-Sharing System|CTSS]] RUNOFF.<ref>{{cite web
| title = History of UNIX Manpages
| url = https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html#x1967_SCRIPT
| quote = 1967: SCRIPT (Stuart Madnick). In 1967, Madnick ported the ''RUNOFF'' code to the IBM CP67/CMS at IBM as ''SCRIPT''.
}}</ref>