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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: PS/2 or Mac for TeX?
Message-ID: <8755@alice.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 18:10:17 GMT
References: <113600001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <113600001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am new to TeX.  We have PS/2-50 and MacII in the lab.  We already 
>have PCTeX (site-licensed) and the previewer.
>
>Which company's TeX for Mac is the best?

There is TexTures and MacTex, and both have there advantages and disadvan-
tages. You may want to look them over.

>How much better is working on a Mac than on a PS/2 ?  Is that so much better
>that I should tell my boss to buy the software for Mac?

The only reason for getting the software for Mac is that you can use Tex
on the PS/2 and the Mac at the same time.

>In other words, can I see the text being processed or just-processed
>while I am typing on a Mac?  I can't do that on PS/2.

That would be nice. However, none of the current implementations do this.
In fact, none of the implementations do anything exciting compared to the
implementations for messy dog.
If you want something that comes close you should consider ArborTex, which
runs on Suns, but maybe also on other hardware by now (?)

Paul.
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