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From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Complex Instructions
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Date: 9 May 89 23:31:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: cdshaw@alberta.UUCP (Chris Shaw)

In article <2254@pembina.UUCP>, cdshaw@alberta (Chris Shaw) writes:
>HR>It is not the problem of getting people to agree it is worthwhile. I can do
>HR>that. (but) the NSF budget does not permit the funding of enough faculty..
>
>Well, it would seem that SL is low on the list of priorities. A pity, perhaps,
>but I think that HR is tilting at windmills.

Well, let's just say that Knuth's ideas about computer typesetting are
better understood with reference to TeX.  It exists, it runs, and it
can be critically examined.  And he didn't complain on the net until
someone else built it.

-- Jon
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