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Well the subject says it  -  According to my experiance using LaTeX on a
DEC ds3100 and the fact that a huge amount of questions in c.t.t consearns
problems about running EmTeX/DosTeX/dvi-previewer/dos-fonts, the answer is
straight forward : Run LaTeX on a real computer with profesional maintenance,
or run something else on a PC.

Many Masters Thesis students at our department tries to use their PCs for
LaTeX, but the ones I know gave up after some time and returned to the "real"
computers or other text processors.

Problems are :

o Takes up alot of space.

o Difficult to install (correct).

o Ethnic leters almost never translate correctly when files are moved to
  workstations/mainframes at the department.

o Inconveniences of moving .ps files to dept. computers for printing on 
  good printers.

o Printing quality of matrix printers doesn't show LaTeX from it's best
  side.

o Very slow, unless the PC is a really "hot" thing.

o Runs out of space when documents reaches a reasonable size.

o Only PD drives etc. can be used on private PCs - the department can 
  afford licenced software.

So far my only problem has been learning how to write LaTeX documents.

BTW - I do own a PC. I didn't mean to start a religious war about them.

kind regards

Erik Plesner (ep@id.dth.dk)
M.Sc., Research Engineer, Technical University of Denmark.