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Article #996Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No
From: Wolfram Schlickenrieder
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 11:35
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 11:35
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nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes: > rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes: > > Erik Plesner (ep) writes: > > 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. > > What's wrong with such a configuration ? [...] > Pc's aren't bad. Looking at them at certain angles is. Ok, I'll tell you, what's wrong with such a configuration: I'd get two Sparc2 Suns for the same price you paid for your box!!! Amazed... ...Wolfram
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!alaspin!schli From: schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder) Subject: Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No In-Reply-To: nmouawad@waterloo.edu's message of 7 Aug 92 02:35:47 GMT Message-ID: <SCHLI.92Aug7133548@alaspin.cs.tu-berlin.de> Sender: news@cs.tu-berlin.de Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany References: <1992Aug04.235021.1349@disk.uucp> <1992Aug6.145632.1355@id.dth.dk> <RJC.92Aug6213611@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <NMOUAWAD.92Aug6223547@math.waterloo.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 11:35:59 GMT Lines: 32