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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Proof that TeX is better (was: Re: Which is better?
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Date: 12 Sep 89 17:20:37 GMT
References: <428@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
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In article <428@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> eykhout@wn3.UUCP (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>It is a (none too exciting) exercise to write a Turing machine
>in TeX. Thus TeX can emulate any computable algorithm, in particular
>those of dtp systems. The only thing you need are the os-bindings
>for screen and such. QED.


     I can also do it on my TI-58 programmable calculator.  Thus, I retract
all my previous comments, and suggest that everyone buy TI-58's for their
text processing needs.  Those needing extra speed might consider the TI-59.

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