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From: pcm@iwarp.intel.com (Phil Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Do TeX and Metafont exist under MINIX?
Message-ID: <1990Nov4.014404.10422@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 4 Nov 90 01:44:04 GMT
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In-Reply-To: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK)

In article <1990Nov3.204223.28577@ioe.lon.ac.uk>, teexdwu@ioe (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) writes:
| Just that really.  Have these two, and some DVI driver(s) and 
| a previewer, been ported to MINIX?
| 
| Dominik

The MS-DOS versions of TeX and LaTeX each require about 510k of memory to
run.  MINIX doesn't have a compiler which can handle that memory
model, and you would in any event NOT be able to spare the memory from
other processes to run *tex.

Phil