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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: TeX 3.0 for ST??
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Date: 6 Jun 90 20:41:29 GMT
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In article <1990Jun6.174657.22376@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:

>I am not sure, but I think TeX requires more than 1 meg to run.  I
>have only tried the old version so I am not sure about 3.0.  The old
>one seemed happy on my 1040ST with 2.5megs RAM.  Also, it is a
>real bear to use without a hard drive.

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. That's
why I wrote TeXShell -- it's a graphical shell for running TeX which
is small enough to allow you to TeX on a 1 meg machine.

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. However,
you should be able to get it to run inside of 1 meg by making the
capacity of various things smaller.

--
"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
                                              - Dan Bernstein