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I grew up with a Commodore 64 and 128. When I had finally saved enough allowance money for an Amiga, my father bribed me by paying for a 30MB hard drive but onl
by tverbeure 3y ago
I grew up with a Commodore 64 and 128. When I had finally saved enough allowance money for an Amiga, my father bribed me by paying for a 30MB hard drive but only if I'd buy a PC instead so that he could run LaTeX on it.[0]. It was a slow 8088 with a monochrome Hercules video card.
What a mistake...
It took years before PCs were able to match the graphics of the Amiga.
[0] It could take 15 minutes to render pretty pedestrian paper on that machine, but many highschool projects were created on that machine, and printed out on his work's LaserWriter.
- Dutchie987 3y agoThere was a port of TeX for the Amiga. It even ran from (a lot of) diskettes but a hard drive gave a much better experience, otherwise you kept swapping disks for all the fonts. There is a demo version of it on Fred Fish disk 083.