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

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From: Wolfram Schlickenrieder
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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From: schli@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schlickenrieder)
Subject: Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No
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