Older wordprocessing software

From: Alexander Schreiber <als_at_thangorodrim.de>
Date: Mon Jul 7 14:19:22 2003

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:10:40PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Hi all, perhaps pusing the boundaries of off-topicness here a little, but...
> >
> > I'm taking suggestions for wordprocessing software to run on an older 486
> > laptop (1994, so almost within the 10 year limit!) that's running Windows 3.11
> > ...
>
> There must be a version of TeX/LaTeX that will run on that machine (on
> the grounds I managed to run it on an orignal PC/XT for a time...). If

And I recently used LaTeX on my trusty HP200LX (small DOS handheld with
an 80186 CPU running at 8 MHz. So, rendering fonts _did_ take close to
forever, but running LaTeX over early versions of my diploma thesis
worked rather well.

> TeX takes a bit of time to learn, but IMHO it's well worth it...

It is. Very nice output by default, extremly portable, low on required
ressources.

Regards,
      Alex.
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