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From: moore@gargar (Lee C. Moore)
Subject: Re: XICS
Message-ID: <1995Jan11.142054.6534@news.wrc.xerox.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:20:54 GMT
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As was mentioned before XICS started life in a small company in San Diego.
I believe the name of that company was Composition Software Systems (CSS).
It was then bought by Xerox and more recently moved into it's own company:
Document Science Corp., still in San Diego.

XICS is a text formatting system and it has an macro language like TeX or
Troff.


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