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Subject: Re: Old Software (Was: SONIX)
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 12:15:27 EDT
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In article <2598@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> walton@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Walton) writes:
>However...SCRIBE, nroff, TeX, et. al. are HUGE
>programs, and running them on the Amiga is nearly impossible.

Not true.  troff is less than 50K.  TeX will run comfortably in a megabyte,
unless you're formatting a book.  I've never had any experience with scribe
because it is ridiculously overpriced compared to it's competition.

Sean
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