Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!think!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!rminnich From: rminnich@udel.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NFS on the amiga, or, Amiga does this already Message-ID: <328@louie.udel.EDU> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 09:59:41 EDT Article-I.D.: louie.328 Posted: Thu Jul 9 09:59:41 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 01:48:20 EDT References: <1521@botter.cs.vu.nl> <312@louie.udel.EDU> <1274@apple.UUCP> <320@louie.udel.EDU> <400@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 23 Keywords: NFS, multi-tasking envy, Macintosh For $200, this begins to sound good. Note that it really is $300 if you want to drive a printer at your house and you do not have a driver for your printer available. So, some questions: 1) Do these TeX's produce .dvi files just like standard tex? (i.e. not 'improved'). If so, we can use the dvi2ps program (which i think was posted not long ago, we have it here) to drive a Laser Writer, or the dviqms program we have here to drive the qms 800s. 2) When you say you run on a 2-drive system, is that with .5Mb or do you need more ram? 3) What is the largest document you have produced? Can i run off a 60-page chapter, for example? What resource is consumed fastest, disk or RAM? Are those disks so full of fonts and such that my .tex files have to be really small? I am really tempted by the $200 price; the earlier price of $350 was just too high. Also, i think if i could show people around here AmigaTex, with previewer, and then tell them they could build such a system for under $2000, that they would be sold. ron -- Ron Minnich