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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Do TeX and Metafont exist under MINIX?
Message-ID: <3307@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 4 Nov 90 21:40:58 GMT
References: <1990Nov3.204223.28577@ioe.lon.ac.uk> <1990Nov4.014404.10422@iwarp.intel.com>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In <1990Nov4.014404.10422@iwarp.intel.com> pcm@iwarp.intel.com (Phil Miller) writes:

>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.

This is true --- to a certain degree.

About two or three months ago, I remember reading that someone had ported gcc
(yet again) for 386 Minix and subsequently had TeX up and running. In order to
achieve this you will need enough physical memory to support TeX --- until
paging is available.

Earl
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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146
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