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From: suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TeX 3.0 for ST??
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.054531.9008@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 7 Jun 90 05:45:31 GMT
References: <1990Jun6.051803.16242@tukki.jyu.fi> <1990Jun6.174657.22376@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Jun6.204129.14909@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1990Jun6.204129.14909@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

>The older TeX versions didn't require more than 1 meg, but they were
>so large that you couldn't run gulam and TeX at the same time. 

I have ST-TeX from Tools GmbH. It is small enough to allow me to 
run it with gulam. It's font capacity is too small, however

>Of course, TeX's memory requirements depend on how big you make all
>the internal data structures. It may be that TeX version 3.0 has
>increased the size of these, so it won't run in 1 meg at all. 

You are right, the memory requirements has grown a lot... I'll try to
make TeX 3.0 to say:
   This is TeX, C Version 3.0 for ST
in a 1 meg. If it won't, then I'll have to think 'bout buying a TT..

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