Former Disk Costs (was: 32 bit Macs (was Atari hard ))

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Jun 7 19:52:04 1998

<I'm halfway through reading 'TeX : The program', and I'm supprised it'll
<run on a CP/M machine. It's possible, I suppose. On this machine the
<binary for virtex (The normal version) is about 180K, and then it needs a
<bit of data space for various tables on top of that.

I presume this machine is a PC where code bloat is the order of the day.

Early teX (not LateX) was fairly compact compared to recent versions.
They were far more limited with what they could do with the printers.

Allison
Received on Sun Jun 07 1998 - 19:52:04 BST