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Paul De Bra writes:
>   Let's assume that LaTeX needs approx 5 MIP per page. That means that processing
>   a 100 page document takes 500 MIP. A not too experienced typist easily types
>   2 or 3 characters per second, meaning that you need 1000 ro 1500 MIPS to
>   provide true WYSIWYG performance for LaTeX. (This assumes that one does not
>   use any tricks to avoid reprocessing the whole document for every character
>   that is entered/deleted/changed.

>   I doubt that a Cray will do.

>   Paul.
>   (debra@research.att.com)

I think you've got your math mixed up.

1 page = 60 lines x 60 characters/line = 3600 characters (roughly)
1 typist at 3 chars/sec takes 1200 seconds, or 20 minutes to type a page. 
1 typist at 100 wpm (~10 cps) takes 6 minutes to type a page.

I think that you can write a LaTeX and a display tool that can process a
page in less than 6 minutes.  It seems to take only about 1 or 2 seconds for
LaTeX and perhaps at most 3 seconds for texsun (per page) on my Sun 3/50,
admittedly not the most powerful thing around.