Re: Big TeX's -- how hard are they to come by?

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From: Ajay Shah
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:35

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cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith) writes:

>Are there enough free Big TeX implementation available nowadays that
>I can simply tell someone who's running out of memory to go get one?

I find it hard to appreciate why TeX should not know how to dynamically
allocate RAM on demand.  Does this have something to do with being
written in pascal?  I seem to recall that new() returns nil if
you are out of memory..

In any case, where is TeX implementation going in the future?

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu

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