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Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No

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From: Rolf Lindgren
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 16:56
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I maintain a PC cite at the Department of Economics at my U. Really, my
task is to provide the users wit a functioning system and then go away.

I helped a professor write a textbook in economics, using Arbortext`s muTeX
(A fairly high-value package), in Adobe Garamond with ligatures hacked in
from the expert font.

What program do you think he used to write his code? You guessed it, Word
Perfect. It took 1 hours 15 minutes to latex his book on a 386sx. On the
UNIX box that they use as a DOS file server, it took less than five
minutes. 

IMHO, the minimum requirement for TeX under DOS is a 486. For a 400-page
book, the minimum to satisfy my personal level of patience is a DECStation
3100.

But check out muTeX from Arbortext (info from help@arbortext.com).
DIsclaimer: I only use their software...

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       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
       N-0589 OSLO 5           |           rolfl.lindgren@usit.uio.no 
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Subject: Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No
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