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

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Mon Jun 8 20:59:36 1998

<OK, I'll give you that it's possible. But it would be very slow (TeX
<contains a lot of routines that are executed when it sees keywords in
<the input file, so you'd be for ever swapping things in), and I doubt it
<would be practical on a floppy-disk only system.

Considering the size of the data file and the DVI result... floppy? Nope.
Hard disk or large ram disk(1mb better).

Allison
Received on Mon Jun 08 1998 - 20:59:36 BST