On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 11:33:08AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> wait a minute. I have a similar machine, 486/50, 340mb. After a 40mb
> swap partition (don't know why; i have 24mb), and a 40mb partition for
> the OS whose name we dare not say (hey, i have to have something to do
> while travelling, and i haven't managed to run Master of Orion under
> dosemu yet), i still have latex for my lyx. Of course, i dare not use
> it, with a processor that slow, but . . . :)
>
> Come to think of it, i had lyx & latex on 486/33's with 8mb and two
> 80mb drives.
I do other things besides write during my commute. It made no sense
to me to install a crippled LaTeX to produce PostScript® on a slow
machine when I could wait until I got home and let my full teTeX on my
speedy desktop do it all in a flash.
--
John Weiss
