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From: ken@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU
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Subject: Re: TEX on CP/M
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Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 11:44:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 17 11:44:00 1987
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TeX probably has no chance of fitting on any 8 bit micro. There are
commercial TeX's for MSDOS. The problem with porting the software
yourself is that TeX is a good torture test of Pascal compilers.  There
is also a C version. You can FTP TeX sources from score.stanford.edu at
off-peak hours.

The problem is not just porting TeX, you have to bring up the fonts and
device drivers. There is a lot of code and data involved. The Unix TeX
tape has 35 Mb of goodies.

	Ken