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From: jearls@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (  Stupid  )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Tex
Message-ID: <1989Oct19.214946.23894@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 19 Oct 89 21:49:46 GMT
Reply-To: jearls@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (  Stupid  )
Organization: Idiots, Anonymous
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SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU ("Scott, part time fuzzy") says:
>
>  A few messages ago (~40) someone mentioned that they wanted to see an
>implementation of TeX on the GS.  I second the motion.  Last I looked, TeX was
>a montrous, but not unreasonable, pile of Pascal code.  I would bet that we
>have the processor horsepower, and certainly the memory.  Anyone with a copy of
>TeX want to look at the source for us?  As I recall, Knuth made it very easy to
>implement on any machine that ran standard Pascal.
>
>  (Anyone want to do try to arrange a net.project?)
>

I have seen and worked with the source for TeX on a VAX/VMS system.  The
source is distributed in a format called WeB, which includes TeX, funky
declarations, and Pascal source all in one file.  The WeB files for TeX,
not including LaTeX or Metafont, are more than three megabytes long.  I
know I wouldn't want to try to compile something like that on the //gs...

>
>  Scott Ellsworth
>
>  ps.  H. Grant Delany: Did the post of an installer script imply a post of the
>rest of Sys 5.0 -> 5.02, or was that just meant to suggest that we should go
>out and get it.  :)

- John

P.S.  I do own a GS and I love it; the only reason I would ever give it up
      is if someone decided to donate an Amiga 2000/2500/3000 (if it ever
      comes out) to my cause...

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