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Article #2675Re: Big TeX's -- how hard are they to come by?
From: Ian W Moor
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:02
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:02
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In article <PCG.92Sep12221620@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk
(Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
|> On 11 Sep 92 07:46:44 GMT, rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) said:
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|> For some bizarre reason he thought that new() would not be available
|> everywhere, so he avoided its use
In some early Pascal implementations there was no new() or dispose(), the
heap was treated like a second stack, with mark() which recorded the heap
pointer in a user variable, and release(), which reset the heap pointer to
the given value. I would guess these were all that were needed to bootstrap
the Pascal compiler, but I doubt that they will suffice for TeX.
Ian W. Moor
iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk Department of Computing, Imperial College.
180 Queensgate London SW7 UK.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cam-cl!doc.ic.ac.uk!doc.ic.ac.uk!iwm From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian W Moor) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Big TeX's -- how hard are they to come by? Message-ID: <191kg0INN2gp@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 14 Sep 92 09:02:56 GMT References: <BuEC6r.B47@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <18p7lpINNc73@almaak.usc.edu> <PCG.92Sep12221620@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> Reply-To: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian W Moor) Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk