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From: darius@isa.uucp (Darius S. Naqvi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TeX 3.0 for ST??
Message-ID: <1990Jun10.154201.11826@isa.uucp>
Date: 10 Jun 90 15:42:01 GMT
References: <1990Jun6.051803.16242@tukki.jyu.fi> <1990Jun6.174657.22376@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Jun6.204129.14909@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: darius@isagate.nexus.ca (Darius S. Naqvi)
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In article <1990Jun6.204129.14909@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>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.
>

The older version of TeX that I have (which calls itself CommonTeX
2.9) runs just fine on my 1meg 1040st, even *with* gulam.















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