CP/M software (was: Former Disk Costs)

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Jun 8 11:02:09 1998

<> It should be different as Knuth's was written in C and tex is asm or pl
< ^^^^^^^^^^^^
<Since when? The source code for TeX that I have here, and the version
<that's printed in Volume B of 'Computers and Typesetting' is written in
<Web

Working versions (or pascal). I've never seen a web compiler.

<> code. No credit given and. It's a simpler version circa 1978 and the
<> putput formats are oriented toward character printers.
<
<Can it handle the standard TeX tests (even old versions of them)? If not,
<it's not TeX, by definition.

Likely not, never tried it's stripped some. It was also used to push the
idea of device independent page descritpions that were capable of text and
graphics. One product that came from that was RETOS (ReGIS to Sixel)
translator. I later modified fancyfont as part of runoff to give font
capable runoff with bitmap output. It could really give a disk a workout.

Allison
Received on Mon Jun 08 1998 - 11:02:09 BST