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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: TeX for RISC6000 again
Keywords: Available now
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Date: 17 Oct 90 15:13:55 GMT
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In article <3627@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, andrewn@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andrew
D Nimmo) writes:
Andrew> 	Just before the RS6000 was announced, I wrote to IBM
Andrew> asking if they would like TeX ported to their new machines, in
Andrew> return for time on the machines.  After much delay I was told
Andrew> that Univ. Washington where preparing a port---I don't know if
Andrew> this was officially undertaken, but IBM gave me the impression
Andrew> that a working TeX would be available soon (I was told this ~6
Andrew> months ago)

Andrew> 	I guess someone official at u.wash can help.

I have it from reliable sources that the IBM port of TeX 2.95 is now
available as a product, at least domestically. Take the following to
your local rep.:
			PRPQ P91068
			Program number 5799-DRR

Numerous people, though, have reported successful porting of the 3.0
distribution from labrea.stanford.edu (don't use ANSI prototypes and
some string function definitions may be incorrect)...


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