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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: availability of TeX and emacs for PCs -- question
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.194738.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 91 03:47:38 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.150626.375@husc3.harvard.edu>, millgram@husc8.harvard.edu (Elijah Millgram) writes:
 
> I'm moving from the Atari world to the PC world, and I'm
> wondering how much of my current environment I can take with me.
 
> Is a full TeX/LaTeX/BibTeX available for PCs?  Commercial?
> Public domain?  What kind of hardware do I need to run LaTeX
> comfortably?

Yes. See [anonymous.tex.site-info]tex-for-ibmpc.txt on
ymir.claremont.edu for details. Make sure you have a hard disk,
at least a 286 (TeX can be run on an 8088, but I don't know why
you'd want to) and at least 640K of memory, but more is better
with the most popular versions.
 
> Is there a PC version of gnu emacs?  Other reasonably rich emacses?

There are all sorts of Emacses. I use MicroEmacs which has a nice
43-line mode for my ega-display. (I like to see as much real
estate on the screen as possible).

-dh

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