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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: AmigaUNIX applications
In-Reply-To: schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil's message of 28 Apr 91 04:38:25 GMT
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In article <2159@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) writes:

   <   Amiga Unix TeX available!
   <
   <      Radical Eye Software has also been hard at work on
   <   a port of TeX to Amiga Unix!  This software is now avail-
   <   able at $300; it can be supplied on either floppy disks or a
   <
   <I don't really want to start a flame war is this group, but isn't this
   <the same version of TeX that you get free with the NeXT?

   AmigaTeX is a commercial, value-added, implementation of TeX.  It is not the
   same as the freely redistributable TeX implementations that are available
   for the Amiga and other platforms.

NeXT distributes a version of TeX from Radical Eye Software, not the
freeware version.  It wouldn't mean much if they said Mathematica,
TeX, WriteNow, etc., if they were only giving you a version that
anyone could get.  I think that you do get more with the Amiga
version.  TeX and MetaFont are the only thing that the catalog claims
that NeXT ships.

-Mike