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Article #992Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No
From: Stephan Eggermont
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 09:28
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 09:28
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rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
: 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.
Is that including the time it took WP to export to an ASCII file? :-)
Did you ever use EmTeX? It is supposed to be the fastest (and largest) TeX
on the PC, and free.
: 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.
You are supposed to split a 400-page document, you know. \include'ing each
chapter with \includeonly{thechaptersyouchanged} gives you more speedup than
a decstation vs. a 80386sx. Having started using LaTeX on a 8Mhz PC tells me
this.
Stephan Eggermont
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