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In article <BuEC6r.B47@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, 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?
> [...]
> At any rate, neither of his TeX's is a "big" TeX, and he has been
> getting out-of-memory errors ("Tex capacity exceeded, sorry hash
> size=3000") on both systems.  He has asked whether I can re-code
> my macro package to use less memory so it will run on a non-BigTeX

Running out of hash size does not necessarily mean that you need a 
BigTeX. (Roughly, you have more than 3000 \def's in your example.)  Non-bigtex
emTeX has a hash size of 3500.  

Certainly for PCs with a 386 running OS/2 2.0 or MSDOS, the 
tex386 from the emTeX package provides
a very good bigtex (approx as fast as the non-bigtex texp or tex186 from
emTeX).  However, for PCs with a 286, the big-tex's from emTeX (btex186
and btexp) are quite slow.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu