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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
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Posted: Thu Jul  9 09:59:41 1987
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Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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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

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Ron Minnich