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In article <RJC.92Aug6213611@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes:

   In article <1992Aug6.145632.1355@id.dth.dk>, Erik Plesner (ep) writes:

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

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

   Again, this is a general PC problem unless they are networked well
   enough to be able to talk to, for instance, the unix printer spooler. 

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

   What a combination, DOS memory brain damage and TeX memory brain
   damage at one and the same time :-).



Another option would be to switch to Os/2.

Consider the following configuration:

32megs of ram expandable to 64, with IEsa bus.

80486 running at 50 Mhz
1.2 giga-bytes hard-drive with under 10 musecs access/seek time
Ati Ultra with 1meg on board sram, plus crystal fonts technology to
produce on the fly scallable fonts as small or as big as necessary.
15inch Multisynch non-interlaced 1024x780x256 colors.


Emtex/32bit specific Os/2 version, with corresponding drivers.

With such a configuration you can get a better response than on many
morkstations.

What's wrong with such a configuration ? What file will take longer
than neccessary ? Besides on a multi-threaded, multi-tasking Os, do
you really care that much ?

Pc's aren't bad. Looking at them at certain angles is.

naji.
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