From: utzoo!decvax!cca!CSD.NOWICKI@SU-SCORE@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: TEX, Metafont
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2559
Posted: Sun Aug  8 20:32:09 1982
Received: Mon Aug  9 05:18:09 1982

From: Bill Nowicki 
Date: 22 Jul 1982 1202-PDT
I would appreciate any information on implementations of
	Knuth's TEX and Metafont for Unix.

Contact Robert Morris (RAM@MIT-MC) for information on the old
Pascal version of TEX.  Metafont is written in Sail, which only
runs on 10s and 20s.  However, we (Stanford) are currently
bringing up a new TEX-82 written in a language called WEB,
which can be passed through a preprocessor to get C.
This should lead to a more effecient version.  The current one
is incredibly slow, even on a large Vax-11/780.

	-- Bill
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