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From: carlson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Richard L. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice C bug: unsigned short array subscript sign extended; TeX
Keywords: TeX AmigaTeX
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Date: 23 Aug 88 05:33:48 GMT
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[moved out of the .tech group; hope that doesn't mess people up too much]

In article <1807@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>In article <2993@haven.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>>	I suppose that if I really begin to do serious TeX work, I'll
>>probably spend the $200 and buy AmigaTeX.  If the demo version on one
>>of the Fish disks is any indication, its is a wonderful product.
>
>YES!  It is a wonderful product.  The more recent version that I picked up
>earlier this year is even "wonderfuller" still.  In some ways, my AmigaTeX
>environment is superior to the TeX environment on the Suns (the only two
>non-trivial minuses for the Amiga being the small/interlaced screen and
>the lack of speed).  And when you compare AmigaTeX to commercially
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>available TeX systems for other personal computers, AmigaTeX has more
>features and a suprisingly reasonable pricetag (how much is TeXtures now?
>$500?).

I just have to make a clarification about this -- AmigaTeX is not slow!
You're absolutely right that a 68000-Amiga isn't as fast as a 68020-Sun; but
adjusting for raw CPU speed, I would bet that AmigaTeX would win.  And
AmigaTeX often beats TeX on our VAX 785 if the VAX has a few other users.

But, of course, the speed of AmigaTeX depends greatly on how you have your
Amiga environment set up.  A couple of comments (that might be obvious to
some, but hopefully will help others) -- if you have enough memory, REZ
AmigaTeX, and it will start up instantly; similarly, put the format files
in RAM: if you can; and I usually keep my TeX source file (and therefore
TeX's output files) in VD0:.  I only have floppies; and any disk I/O really
slows things down (since TeX, like a compiler, does a lot of I/O); of
course, if you have a hard disk (especially with the FFS :-) this will
be less of an issue.

By the way, I can't wait to see Tom's previewer running on a Hedley monitor!

>
>I'd say more, but this is probably the wrong newsgroup.  If anyone wants
>to hear me rave incessantly about AmigaTeX, just drop me a mail message.

 Ditto!

>			William LeFebvre
>			Department of Computer Science
>			Rice University
>			<phil@Rice.edu>

-- Richard
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