Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!rutgers!mcnc!rti!sas!bts
From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto (really TeX on PC)
Message-ID: <329@sas.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 07:01:34 GMT
References: <9591@tekecs.TEK.COM> <328@splut.UUCP> <3144@briar.Philips.Com> <610@gethen.UUCP> <1298@gumby.cs.wisc.edu> <2576@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <6472@cisunx.UUCP> <3474@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc Cary, NC
Lines: 17
Summary: TeX is much faster/cheaper on the Amiga.

In article <3474@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> spectre@mit-vax.UUCP (Joseph D. Morrison) writes:
>I use TeX and LaTeX for almost all of my text processing
> . . . 
>in terms
>of typeset pages per minute per dollar, the IBM-PC beats everything else...

No. in terms of typeset pages per minute per dollar, the Amiga beats 
everything else hands down.  (At least if you use TeX / LaTeX.)  Plus you
get to run your previewer and formatter at the same time since it's
multitasking.

(Boy has this ``GNU Manifesto'' discussion gotten wide-ranging!)
-- 
                                                         --Brian.
(Brian T. Schellenberger)				 ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts

DISCLAIMER:  Whereas Brian Schellenberger (hereinafter "the party of the first