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From: rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NFS on the amiga, or, Amiga does this already
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 02:29:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 02:29:30 1987
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Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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Keywords: NFS, multi-tasking envy, Macintosh

Just correcting some bad information posted.

AmigaTeX is $200 for TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, IniTeX, Previewer, some other
utilities, samples, and five floppies of fonts.  That's eight floppies
total.  Individual printer drivers are $100 apiece, and (usually) come
with their own set of fonts, typically three to seven additional
floppies.  Try and find a comparably priced TeX/previewer/driver
combination for any other microcomputer.

And you don't put the entire distribution on your hard disk (or floppies.)
A caching scheme has been implemented which allows AmigaTeX to run very
comfortably on two floppies, which includes plenty of space for 300 dpi
fonts for your laser, 100 dpi fonts for the preview, and a relatively
large workspace.

NFS is great, but most people don't have access to it, especially at
home.  And, even with NFS, you still want to preview on the Amiga.