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In article <7260@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) writes:
> I'm just finishing up the change file for VMS TeX 3.0 (based on
> Brian Hamilton Kelly's change file) and would like to get some
> comments on VMS TeX from the readers of this group:
> 
> -Is there any real reason why the standard version of TeX should
>  not be a 64-bit TeX with 200,000-some-odd words of main memory?
>  It would seem that under VMS, main memory concerns are not that
>  big of a deal. Perhaps someone familiar with TeX and VMS
>  internals can comment on this.

At least this much, I would say.  We've been running happily with over
300,000.

> -Should VMS TeX print characters in the range 160-254? Standard
>  TeX, will print ^^a0 through ^^fe for these characters if
>  they should appear in the log file or be sent to the terminal.

Definitely print them literally.  If you are trying to, say, make the
copyright character on a VT200 or VT300 into macro to produce a copyright
symbol, then TeX should output the copyright character when you get it
wrong (i.e., because it will display as a copright symbol on your terminal).

> -Should pool files have an extension of .poo or .pool?

.pool is MUCH better.

> That's all for now, but there may be more to come.

Good questions, thanks for taking the trouble to canvas opinion.