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From: philip@pro-generic.cts.com (Philip McDunnough)
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Anton,I agree with most of what you say.The GS is a really nice personal
computer.However you surely can't be serious that people would rather word
process on the GS.The GS needs a "productivity" video mode(such as
640x400).There is nothing on the GS that compares with the ease of use and
power(even though it is not considered high end) of Write Now 2.0 .
 
Furthermore you cannot,to the best of my knowledge,find a GS version of TeX
even though this is in the public domain,would suit the GS(it is not WYSYWIG)
and would enable GS users to compose (long) technical documents. The Amiga and
the Atari both have implementations of TeX which can be obtained via ftp.It is
a matter of having a good C compiler I suppose.Ther is also a commercial
version of TeX on the Amiga which is used in various universities.This may be
the best implementation of TeX on any computer(except the NeXT-same person
ported it there).

I see this as a serious omission.Mathematical documents can't be produced in
any decent way on the GS(to the best of my knowledge).This is not the fault of
the computer but reflects on the user base.

 Philip McDunnough    ->philip@utstat.toronto.edu
::University of Toronto