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

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Fri Jun 5 03:26:21 1998

On 8 Jun 98 at 0:21, Tony Duell wrote:

> >
> >
> > <(I doubt anyone wants to go through a routine of converting files
> > <back and forth. I strongly doubt TeX would run on a regular IMSAI
> > <with reasonable speed).
> >
> > Not so. Runs fairly well on similar machines. DRI evern did a version
> > of tex for CP/M. Have the manual and software.
>
> 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.
>
> >
> > Personally I used runoff a lot, it was quite fast.
> >
> > Allison
> >
> -tony
>
 TeX was also ported to the ST . I've never tried it, but the local
user group has it. I think it came on about 12 720k disks tho.

ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 03:26:21 BST

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