Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!rusmv1!ifistg!ifi!mattes From: mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Eberhard Mattes) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: emTeX and coprocessor ? Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 10:35:22 GMT References: <91052.123049HAN@FRECP12.BITNET> Sender: news@ifistg.uucp Organization: IfI, Univ. Stuttgart, W Germany Lines: 11 In-reply-to: HAN@FRECP12.BITNET's message of 21 Feb 91 16:30:49 GMT Jay Han wrote: > I use the emTeX package for IBM-PC quite extensively, but on my 286 it > runs pretty slowly. I would like to know if emTeX's compiler and previewers > (DVIDRV) use a coprocessor if there is one. I might then consider buying one > of those cheap 287 clones. TeX itself won't run faster with a coprocessor. But the drivers would run much faster, but they're not using a coprocessor. If someone donates a 387/33 (or clone), I'll compile the drivers for 387 :-) -- Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)